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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by pjmlp on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:23AM (#50379421)
It is a full browser, not surprising at all, only for those that never coded native applications.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by asdff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:20PM (#50383955)
I mean so is lynx
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by atomic_cattlepr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:57PM (#50384377)
Lynx is a "full browser" in the same way that Emacs is a "full word processor."
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by fao_ on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:49PM (#50384944)
... EMACS is a full word processor? It's a bit spartan in terms of how the interface feels, but functionally it's a lot better than what modern writers get given in vibecoded packages
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by pjmlp on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:11PM (#50384505)
Lynx was created for UNIX systems that used around 8 MB, and was text only, JavaScript was yet to be invented.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by odo1242 on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:22AM (#50388853)
More than that: it's a full browser that doesn't share any of the system browser libraries (using it's own browser engine) and also NodeJS. You can often save almost ~300-500 megabytes by switching to something like Tauri (even Tauri+NodeJS) that uses the system's own browser framework.
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