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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by SahAssar on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#17008328)
Discord, Slack and other chat apps are the perfect example of when not to use electron. They should just be webapps.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by bananicorn on Monday May 07, 2018 @04:12PM (#17016092)
In fact, I think The Discord desktop client versus Ripcord[0] illustrates nicely how much better a native solution can run.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

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