Evan Wallace (the author) is also the co-founder and CTO of Figma. Absolutely remarkable engineer. His co-founder Dylan is an investor in our company, and I can’t seem to get in touch with Evan at all because he’s always super heads down on something meaningful (such as esbuild). Mad respect for him.
How does he do Figma CTO-ing and at the same time building esbuild? That’s mad hours.
Also one of the things I love about Figma is their obsession on performance. It feels such a joy to use. Runs circles around any Adobe product. It’s written in a browser. Figma and vscode are my inspiration for browser based tools.
>How does he do Figma CTO-ing and at the same time building esbuild? That’s mad hours.
My guess is an alignment between purpose, fun, and skillset. I would say (not for the sake of bragging but for qualifying the legitimacy of my position) - I probably pull similar hours across CTO-ing, investing, and learning biochemistry. Then again, I'm commenting on HN and Evan isn't, so maybe not. :P
