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by laythea 2981 days ago
As long as performance is important, native software will always have an edge. Depends on the application.
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weberc2 2980 days ago
I’m a big fan of native UI, but I doubt this particular claim. The web stack is almost certainly more performance than GTK, for example.
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laythea 2979 days ago
Apologies, when I say native software, I don't just mean the UI.
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weberc2 2979 days ago
I don't agree on this count either. You can have performance and maintainability by writing your business logic in a daemon. Only very few applications will find this IPC cost unacceptable, and WASM promises to raise the performance ceiling even further. There are lots of good arguments for native software, but I don't find the performance argument to be particularly compelling.
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