Re:Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
by jupp0r on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:06AM
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Define fast. Do you care about frame rates? input latency? startup times? memory usage?
There are trade offs, but if you care about high frame rates and low input latency, web apps can totally deliver that.
Look at https://lighttracer.org/app.html, for example.
Re:Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
by zigzag312 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:32AM
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I tried that app expecting responsive app, but the viewport lags significantly, and when rendering, the whole UI lags.
Re:Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
by jcelerier on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:00PM
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I tried opening the link and did not even have the patience to wait until "compiling shaders" was done. When I saw the buttons slowly coming up one at a time I literally laughed. Is this supposed to be a remotely good example?
No it is not. Though it seems proven that even with very powerful hardware users in general have been pushed to minimal expectations. So GUIs that take seconds to start or respond on multi Ghz processors and multi GB RAMs are considered fast now.
This argument is web GUI is fast is more of "It's been proven multiple times meal kits are cheaper than buying groceries from store". Yeah, someone can find really cheap meal kits if they spend many hours on hunting a deal. But in general case grocery in store is plain cheaper for most of reasonable shoppers.