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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by kolanos on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:42PM (#43009049)
Looks like it was compressed to 4MB, but still.
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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by nicoburns on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:53PM (#43009113)
Yeah, but with most JavaScript frameworks (and even Rust compiled to WASM), 4MB (at most!) would be the size of the uncompressed bundle.
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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by aledalgrande on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:19AM (#43009587)
Figma is much more than that and lots of people use it daily
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Re:We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly by theanonymousone on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:00AM (#43009821)
Coincidentally, I just checked the LinkedIn page of a colleague, and Vivaldi said it was loading ~30MB of data for that.
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