Web developers are aware the web is slow - but there’s not many viable options for shipping a widely accessible product, so they have to deal with the platforms constraints. Outside of games, no-one is going to download your custom binary even though it might be 1000x fasterhttps://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1387520980029829120 …
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I would use a new GUI library if I didn't have to implement text selection, autocomplete, CJK, and all the touch interactions on mobile. I also hate big IDEs like Xcode. For me, it's just 100x faster to build something for me to realize my ideas on the web.
Sure, but wouldn't it be better if we built a platform that also lets you do things 100x faster, but, isn't janky and broken like the web? I don't understand why people think the current web is somehow the only way to do something that looks like this.
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It would be so much better! And that's why people like me follow people like you!
I think it's easy to over-estimate the amount of accumulated knowledge that is necessary to pull something off like this. -
Just 2-3 years after learning how to program, I built Notion. I learned so much along the way - I didn't know about indexes in Postgres when I started... Building for the web is just way easier. But one day, maybe we'll build something better with guidance from people like you.
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