Re:News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta
by dmitriid on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:41AM
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> The "obsession" is with having a good common platform for development. Powered by some of the fastest rendering engines on the planet, some of the fastest language runtimes out there.
Nothing in this sentence applies to web browsers. The rendering in browsers is abysmally slow and extremely inefficient due to the way DOM is structured and rendered on-screen.
> Webapps like VSCode run stupid fast
Sure, if you're a trillion-dollar corporation with thousands of man-hours dedicated to a single app, then sure, you can have a decent app. However, the whole story of VS Code is the story of fighting against its browser origins. You could, for example, read up on how they tried to make the terminal in VS Code fast.
> This is a relic, ancient dust to us.
You do not have the right to talk for all of "us".
Nothing in this sentence applies to web browsers. The rendering in browsers is abysmally slow and extremely inefficient due to the way DOM is structured and rendered on-screen.
> Webapps like VSCode run stupid fast
Sure, if you're a trillion-dollar corporation with thousands of man-hours dedicated to a single app, then sure, you can have a decent app. However, the whole story of VS Code is the story of fighting against its browser origins. You could, for example, read up on how they tried to make the terminal in VS Code fast.
> This is a relic, ancient dust to us.
You do not have the right to talk for all of "us".