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Not to detract this component but I can say with certainty that people will be writing Desktop applications with Svelte/React running inside Electron that takes up gigs of ram. It will be interesting to see how this performs in such environment.

Bit off topic but I really dig the clean look and feel of this. Is there anything close in Flutter? Think building this in Flutter might improve performance for your case (running on a high end samsung phone)

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I keep hearing this, but I've never figured out why it might be the case, and particularly with Electron over Chrome/FF?

Surely if react/svelte etc are built well they're relatively low processor / compute? When manipulating canvas / images / rich-whatever, I assume graphic accelerated functions would work substantially better than alternatives.

I'm not sure what the issue was, could be the particular browser they are using (Samsung browser is horrible) but I wouldn't be surprised if it runs into performance issues as number of nodes increase.

I'm talking specifically about electron.

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