How many web developers understand that a low-end integrated GPU on a laptop can draw full 4k screens of pixels at 3000 frames per second?
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And they have some of the least polished UI elements ever shipped - similar, in fact, to those made ad hoc by game developers. It is not uncommon to see scroll bars that don't resize, drag interactions that randomly fail, laggy clicks that end up hitting different buttons, etc.
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And all the while the performance is absolutely horrible. So I don't think it's fair to say "the web has poor performance, but..." because there's nothing to put after the "but" that it actually does well, other than the reason it's here, which is that it's standard.
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An empty screen sure. You can fill that even on the CPU. If you need to layout 2000+ nodes with many of those being text nodes, that need special layout conditions for different types of fonts and languages, it becomes a little more complicated. That's before you do any JS.