The big rewrite: a true story
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A complete rewrite of Balsamiq Mockups into Balsamiq Wireframes uses JavaScript + HTML5 + SVG and targets browser, desktop and mobile; the project spans more than two years and aims for an 80% shared core with ~20% native per platform. Tooling choices include experiments with SpiderMonkey, a thin native bridge called nativeJS, React on the web, SQLite for storage and custom real‑time sync. The result runs natively in the browser and the cross‑platform architecture and performance solutions actually work.
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