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Discussion on: What's the most wasteful software?

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Stephen Belovarich

Everytime I have Figma running in a tab in Safari for awhile the warning pops up saying the web app is using excessive energy. The teams making browser based design tools should consider making the experience super performant when engineers also have to run Chrome, multiple servers locally.

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Michael Puckett

Web Assembly to the rescue!?

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rhymes

Interesting you mentioned it because Figma already uses WebAssembly for some of its functionality

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Ben Halpern

Neat!