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Discord is rewriting its entire desktop client in Rust with a native GPUI-based interface (dropping both Electron and React Native) (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Fun! I’ll get to moderate a Discord server for blind people that blind people can’t use on desktop!

How would a rewrite cause this to happen? Is there something about Rust frameworks for the desktop that exclude accessibility features?

I’ve been working primarily with C#, but none of their frameworks exclude accessibility features… would be shocked AF if Rust frameworks just left that all out.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I checked the gpui crate and it has an accessibility module that uses AccessKit, but I can't say if it actually works.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but this is Rust, not some single-dev pet project. You would expect a fully fleshed out framework to have accessibility features built in as first-class features, not some randomly bolted-on afterthought.

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