Alice Ching
@starfishie.bsky.social
🧋boba enthusiast, 🎮 glorified mechanic. FigJam @ Figma; Glitch (on hiatus). Previously lead eng on Wattam.
Can’t tell if you’re joking but dudeeeeeeee hope you can rest this weekend regardless
May 20, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Can’t tell if you’re joking but dudeeeeeeee hope you can rest this weekend regardless
Oh dang I miss that device
May 5, 2023 at 6:20 AM
Oh dang I miss that device
Read all about how we drew inspiration from the gaming world and what that means for our technical challenges, up on the blog! Here’s the link again: https://bit.ly/3NFPgGJ
How Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world
The parallels between Figma's technical challenges and those in the gaming world
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May 3, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Read all about how we drew inspiration from the gaming world and what that means for our technical challenges, up on the blog! Here’s the link again: https://bit.ly/3NFPgGJ
We call Figma's collaborative editing "multiplayer," inspired by cooperative multiplayer games. We find ourselves building digital worlds, just as you would in Minecraft.
May 3, 2023 at 4:58 PM
We call Figma's collaborative editing "multiplayer," inspired by cooperative multiplayer games. We find ourselves building digital worlds, just as you would in Minecraft.
This allows us to create responsive interfaces. On the server side, we use Rust in our multiplayer server, which provides better dev ergonomics than C++.
May 3, 2023 at 4:58 PM
This allows us to create responsive interfaces. On the server side, we use Rust in our multiplayer server, which provides better dev ergonomics than C++.
Figma's tech stack is more like a gaming engine than a web tech stack. We build the canvas in C++ (compiled into WebAssembly) and write our UI layer in React and Typescript.
May 3, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Figma's tech stack is more like a gaming engine than a web tech stack. We build the canvas in C++ (compiled into WebAssembly) and write our UI layer in React and Typescript.