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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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[–] 6 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

On the one hand, I would love if more applications moved to native rendering instead of Electron... On the other hand, this is no doubt all vibe coded which I hate. On the third hand I somehow have, what's gonna happen to alternative clients like Vesktop? I hope they'll keep working because everything Discord offers by default is so bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    I anticipate that this is an effort to clamp users into their ecosystem

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  • [–] 1 point 28 minutes ago

    Every Discord user is already in their "ecosystem". Even if you use a third party client, every single message you send is available to them to scan/sell to advertisers or cops with zero barriers whatsoever.

    The only benefit of a third party client (besides UX enhancements and customization) is that Discord can't execute malware/spyware natively on your PC. This is something they will inevitably do in the future in an effort to chase endless growth, but afaik it's not happening today. They make enough money from the data they harvest from your chats, at least for now.

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