[AndriyKunitsyn]

JavaScript is fast because it is used by every person every day, so lots of smart people from big companies put lots of thought how to make it fast, and I still get a feeling of overwhelming anger when browsing the new web Reddit on a 4-years old phone. Godot is a game engine supported by a community (not big companies).

They are not really comparable. And sometimes, there are still performance ceilings imposed by a nature of the tool.

[mschuster91]

> so lots of smart people from big companies put lots of thought how to make it fast, and I still get a feeling of overwhelming anger when browsing the new web Reddit on a 4-years old phone.

That's more the problem of Reddit's code being a pile of bull dung. Someone high-level in there decided to ditch the "old" API for the "redesign" in favor of GraphQL and as everyone who has ever worked with GraphQL is likely to have discovered, GraphQL is a hell in itself.

And because whoever was moronic enough to call that decision doesn't want to admit they have fucked up and Reddit can't/doesn't want to afford maintaining two distinct APIs, they decided to rather shut down the old, working and performant API.

Reddit is being killed by corporate bullshit.

[johnnyanmac]

Javascript was also once upon a time just some randomly strung together mess of code (with urban legends saying it was made in 10 days) by a not-big company. Gotta start somewhere.

There's no point comparing year 30+ of Javascript to year ~10 of Godot. Remember that year 10 of JS was the time when Flash reigned supreme.

>They are not really comparable. And sometimes, there are still performance ceilings imposed by a nature of the tool.

I agree and am glad that we're finally putting a halt to bandaging up the leaky pipes known as JS and releasing stuff like WebASM. Fortuantely, Godot is nowhere near as heavily bandaged and has easier access to change.

[gustavus]

> JavaScript is fast because it is used by every person every day, so lots of smart people from big companies put lots of thought how to make it fast, and I still get a feeling of overwhelming anger when browsing the new web Reddit on a 4-years old phone. Godot is a game engine supported by a community (not big companies).

I'm glad to see that tools can exist in only one of 2 states, massive world wide adoption and support by big corporate, or a couple of devs screwing around. I wonder if it is possible for a tool to transcend this limitation?

If only there was a way for multiple people to use a tool, push for it, enhance it and for it's adoption to grow and spread to large pieces of the community eventually gaining corporate support. But nah, things like that don't happen. After all if there is one thing I've learned a scripting/game/animation engine that is easy enough to use and is flexible is something no one really needs anyone, a product like that would probably disappear in a FLASH, after all.