Framework-Free Flight Tracking: Why Raw WebGL Beats Modern Abstraction

As applications grow data-intensive, framework abstractions become critical performance bottlenecks. This flight tracking project demonstrates how dropping framework overhead in favor of Rust, WebAssembly, and raw WebGL achieves sub-second load times and renders 10,000+ objects at 60 FPS—a ceiling rarely reached with conventional tooling. For developers building real-time, data-heavy applications, this illustrates the significant performance dividends of choosing low-level control over developer convenience.