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[–] 32 points 2 days ago (14 children)

It's great, but I wonder what happens with the linux client? There is no mention of it in the article.
Do we get optimized native client or is that too much work if they don't have universal framework anymore?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

    They are using GPUI. Rust native UI framework from the Zed IDE team. I think the creator of Zed is the one who created Electron in the first place, then left. I'm not sure though.

    So it should be cross platform

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    It's a bold strategy. "Electron sucks! Let's see what else these people made".

    But seriously, why do I need GPU acceleration for my chat UI?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    It's a video player. You want GPU acceleration.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    What video? 99.99479% of my Discord experience is text.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    "Native" sort of loses its meaning in this context - this new client is not "native" in the sense of using the existing GUI tooling for each platform (Cocoa for macOS, any of Microsoft's own frameworks on Windows, primarily Gnome/KDE on Linux).

    It is using a universal framework in GPUI, so the experience will be the same on each platform.

    It is "native" in the sense that it's not web technology on any of the platforms.

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