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It's amazing though. The performance of Figma is better than all native vector apps out there.

Yes and no. Everything is fine until you hit the 2gb limit. The average professional laptop has a 16gb ram. Figma is not only the vector app. If someone wants serious vector work, Illustrator and Affinity Designer provide a solution.

Figma is more than this, and the complexity of the workflows requires offline support and more memory available to the app.:)

Has performance in Sketch fallen in recent years? I know it's not as popular any more, but years ago when I used Sketch the performance was always top notch.

I used sketch around 2017-2018 and the performance was really bad. Much worse than Illustrator. At the time I was on a top of the line 5K iMac.

Currently on an M2 Pro MBP and Figma is more responsive than Affinity Design. The latest versions of Illustrator have had a bunch of GPU rendering issues that affect performance. In fact these issues were the reason I started using Figma.

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