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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by trs8080 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:48PM (#26693862)
> you could implement the same thing with DOM elements or simply with SVG

In the same way that writing a REST API is "connecting to some DB and simply exposing data via some endpoints" or building a machine learning model is "simply throwing some data at some algorithm and getting a bunch of analysis out" or devops is "simply starting some remote servers" or creating an OS is "simply writing a bootloader and then some stuff on top."

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Re:I can only think that modern front end development has fa... by onli on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:05PM (#26693969)
No. In the way that having written UIs that go into that direction, adding refinements to them and adding performance improvements does not change the base characteristics of what has to be written.

Remember, my comment was a response to the claim that something like Figma could not be done before the current frontend development complexity mania. But there is nothing in that collection of bad tools that is necessary to write a canvas based UI like that. It could have been done before and it most likely has been done before.

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