Apple's Shifting Differentiation

I thought this statement from the article had more than a hint of truth to it: "Figma in Electron may destroy your battery, but that destruction will take twice as long, if not more, with an A-series chip inside!"

This will allow Sketch to kick Figma's ass as soon as they solve their online multi-user editing

As a developer on the receiving end of designs, in my experience, performance isn't really a discussion point as long as it isn't abysmal. Figma hits it out of the park in every way in user experience, functionality, deliverables, and more. This is a personal and very subjective opinion, but Sketch doesn't feel even remotely close to achieving the same level of quality.

Personally, the user experience is bad in Figma, as each time it wants me to login in the browser while using the Figma desktop app. Every time you start up the app :(

Also requires me have a working internet to be able to use it. Sketch or Affinity Designer don't have these problems. I hope they will fix that problem with Figma.

Being so strongly tethered to the web is absolutely Figma's achilles's heel. Well that, and its needless Electron wrapping for its desktop version. Its file format not being open and well documented (unlike the Sketch file format) is also concerning to me.

So if they…

- Add a full offline mode

- Ditch Electron for a more focused/lightweight webassembly+canvas implementation

- Open and document their file format to allay lockin concerns

…I'd be much more inclined to use it instead of Sketch.

> - Ditch Electron for a more focused/lightweight webassembly+canvas implementation

Actually, that's exactly how Figma is built—their desktop app just wraps their web version while hooking into file system APIs provided by Electron/NodeJS. See https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-....