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Comment by beders

It is simply mind-boggling how much effort the JS community has put into working around the performance properties of a document layout engine to make it 'interactive' and 'responsive'.

With only 3 major rendering engines left standing, where is the concerted push to turn these document renders into general purpose, fast, desktop-quality rendering engines?

Back to Svelte vs. React vs. Reagent vs. Vue.JS vs. Angular vs. (insert framework-of-the-month-here)

One common theme seems to be: Run code to manipulate a tree-like data structure (DOM) efficiently. This obviously needs to become: Submit data to the rendering engine to manipulate the tree-like structure. (and in a way .innerHtml is doing that for a sub-tree, but is not suitable for general-purpose tree manipulation)

parent beders 7 years ago

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