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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (Rust rewrite) - Link updated following AI detection in the comments (www.theverge.com)
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Edit: old post is someone is curious: https://dev.to/jamilxt/electron-vs-gpui-what-discords-290-mb-rust-rewrite-can-and-cannot-prove-34b6

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[–] 16 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

Just generally it waffled on, and didnt get to a point.

That makes this a useful comparison, not a verdict

Thats the "its not X, its Y" pattern.

Not so fast.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    That makes this a useful comparison, not a verdict.

    Plus all the other constant flip/flop contrasting throughout the text. It's like a comparative decision matrix converted to prose, and exhausting to read.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the ai writing assistant pop up or whatever’s this is upon viewing the page:

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Fortunately I disallow javascript execution by default, so I often don't see this crap. Of course, about half the time I don't see images or the article content either, since delivering text or images is apparently completely impossible without running arbitrary code.

    I seem to vaguely recall we used to have some sort of hyper-text markup language that could do all that, but I guess I must've imagined it.

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