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Re:Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser by csande17 on Friday November 29, 2019 @03:54AM (#21663051)
Frameworks like Svelte focus on reducing the time spent running JavaScript. This project focuses on reducing the time spent on layout and rendering.

Theoretically they'd complement each other, but in practice I imagine UIs for super-resource-constrained set-top boxes are already written in pretty efficient JavaScript.

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Re:Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser by Manishearth on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:00PM (#21665816)
These things are actually pretty related: JS isn't particularly slow as a language; it only gets slow on the web because every time JS code touches the DOM/CSS a part of layout and style needs to be recomputed.
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