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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by Daedren on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:07AM (#50379235)
I've never used GPUI. Does GPUI provide the same assurances of accessibility? Of proper CJK rendering?

Activities will apparently still use Tauri. Is that going to be a compatibility nightmare due to WebKit? (At least until CEF comes out)

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by mintflow on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:18AM (#50379359)
It render accetpable Chinese text, and the IME stuffs work on the control such as search box
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by eviks on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:08AM (#50380894)
Think still has no accessibility, and given that the public framework is abandoned might not get there
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by drcongo on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:23PM (#50381760)
Not quite abandoned, just that the Zed team stopped focussing on it. I've been building with this, very active GPUI framework: https://gpui-kit.com
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tensor on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:18PM (#50383192)
Yes it can be made accessible, it's just not in the repo and needs to be integrated with other libraries. Things like https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-kit do it for you.
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