[throwaway0665]

Figma is the gold standard when it comes to performance and optimization, and is basically a native app that happens to be inside your browser. The co-founder and previous CTO Evan Wallace also created esbuild which powers most of the modern bundling tools.

The only other web app I can think of doing the same thing is Google Docs, which uses it's own canvas based renderer with an svg overlay for accessibility. I feel it's telling that Google thought leaning on their own browser (through HTML/CSS) wasn't even good enough for typesetting.

[purple-leafy]

This Evan Wallace fella sounds like an accomplished individual

[calebj0seph]

It's becoming more common. Confluence whiteboards is all WebGL, even the text rendering.

[robertlagrant]

Google Docs used to be Writely though; they acquired it. It predates Chrome.

[nasso_dev]

the switch to canvas rendering is recent though

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...

[robertlagrant]

Oh! I didn't know that. Fair enough - that does rather make the point.