Felix Rieseberg: evaluation

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…Yeah, but I was, I was there. We built the Slack app. Yeah. It’s crazy. Um, I mean obviously you get the electron guy to do it, but, well, but this is an interesting point. Like, by the time, by the time I joined Slack, they already had an app that was built with something at the time called Met Gap. It was a little bit like the same app gap thing for mobile. It just used the operating systems. Web views. Um, and that didn’t work for like so many reasons. Um, and they were like, all right, maybe we need like bigger guns. We need to like take more control of the rendering stack. And there’s, there’s a few things I always mention here. Um, I think if you’re building a small app, just going with the operating systems web view is perfectly fine. If you’re building an app, maybe that doesn’t have too many users who will like cry bloody murder. If it doesn’t work, that is fine. The reason to go with your own embedded rendering engine is because, and this is still true in 2026, the operating system render engines are not that good. They’re just not that good. Both Microsoft and Apple are trying to move away from that. They so far really haven’t, the only way to upgrade those is to upgrade your operating system. So if you are, say Slack and you have critical rendering bug in WK WebU and some of the other WebU options, your only recourse is to tell your customer, oh, sorry, you’re too poor. You didn’t bother the, its MacBook. Unacceptable. Mm-hmm.…

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