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Everyone can tell the difference immediately due to the lack of performance

You'd be surprised. Obsidian, slack, Spotify, figma etc don't usually get panned for lack of performance, and those aren't even very light weight. As wasm apps mature, it will only get harder to justify maintaining 5 different native apps instead of a single cross platform one

Not being unusably horrible in terms of performance and being required to do something I need to do doesn't mean I enjoy or even tolerate your JavaScript app, bro.

I'd switch over to the 16-bit VB4 form version as soon as available.

Slack and Spotify really suck. I can't judge Obsidian and Figma, I don't use them.

The one example I know where they seem to have done a good job (at least in the beginning) is VScode, and even there it's not great. It's just not terrible. Put the same effort into a native app and it will be great.

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