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I believe Figma is indeed written in C++ and uses emscripten. It's pretty much the polar opposite of your standard CRUD app.

Huh, Guess I was right :p

So neither of those are a good argument in favour of these complicated javascript stacks, are they?

Just because Figma opted for this route doesn't make it right for all interactive web applications.

Yeah. That's what the little `:p` at the end of that comment meant.