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mandelbrot
Microbenchmark testing Python, Numba, Mojo, Dart, C/gcc, Rust, Go, JavaScript, C#, Java, Kotlin, Pascal, Ruby, Haskell performance in Mandelbrot set generation (by maxim-saplin)
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data_table_2
In-place substitute for Flutter's DataTable and PaginatedDataTable with fixed/sticky header and extra features
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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It is my conviction that the Web Stack is the most capable, mature, accessible, and performant way of building and running UIs. It is the sheer amount of effort spent by millions of people around the globe that makes it the best UI stack for the vast majority of use cases. Some say that the browser nowadays is the most complex piece of software that few organizations can make. And it has been a while since Chrome super optimized runtimes are capable of running JavaScript at near-native speeds and the WebKit rendering engine is more than ready to generate each frame in under 8ms achieving 120 FPS.
As a creator of a table widget for Flutter, I can tell that complex large tables are well faster when rendered using HTML in the browser rather than natively in an app. I also had a chance to observe a few projects with Web clients and native Android and iOS clients developed side by side. In most cases, I had the perception that the web part was always easier and faster to do...
This PWA app was created in 2019 to replace this native app built with Xamarin for iOS and Android. I was very much excited about the result our team achieved. The PWA variant was a smooth experience with better UI performance (e.g. better than Xamarin scrolling of lists, there were noticeable stutters), and better accessibility making it available on any device, not just smartphone. The dev journey is also much greater - faster development, fewer bugs, no hurdles with App Store approvals and publishing, no hard feeling about making changes to both front and back-end - in mobile apps in the back-end you always care about the vision of the client, there're no guarantees when certain users will get the updated client.