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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Griffinsauce on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:54PM (#28435627)
Is Rust as blazing fast as Electron is slow?
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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by grishka on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:59PM (#28435678)
But Rust runs on the server while Electron runs on the client. You can't compare them like that!
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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by ginko on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:20PM (#28435890)
Rust is about as fast as C++, so I'd call that normal speed.
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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by pizza234 on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:34PM (#28436026)
Electron is not necessarily slow - see Visual Studio Code; it's certainly not as reactive as Sublime Text, but it's fast/reactive enough.
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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Griffinsauce on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:29AM (#28499044)
I know, it was a (admittedly vague) joke.

People rag on Electron with the same shallowness as they praise Rust. I bet you can make slow things in Rust. It's all a soup of trade-offs, resource management and hype.

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