It’s a shame. Does anyone think Adobe will carry on the front end work that made Figma so good? Or will they just let the tech stack rot and die like every other product they own.
I despise Figma, so for the first time ever I'm really excited for an Adobe takeover because the sooner this app dies the better. Having Figma open in a single browser tab on an Intel MBP will burn a hole through to the centre of the earth. The "desktop" Figma is a janky, laggy mess that opens in a tiny window every time and eats resources like nothing else. Copy and paste between Figma and almost anything else is horribly unpredictable.
That has been my experience as well - really don't understand the love for it, I run on a very powerful machine with 1GB fiber internet, and it always, always feels like a dog to me whenever I am forced to use it.
Not sure Adobe will make it any better, but just don't see why it is so popular in the first place.
Also had a bad experience with managing fonts on Linux because of its web-based architecture. All in all using Sketch as a single user was a smooth and straightforward experience, wehreas using Figma was an extremely frustrating one.
I'm pessimistic about Adobe being able to make it any better.
Same - whenever I get a Figma link I open a whole new browser because within a few minutes I know it's going to crash and I have a limited time to veeerry slooowly try to extract the information I need. This is on multiple machines, i7, 32gb RAM, good enough GPU to run modern games.
