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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by post-it on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:00AM (#50379933)
> Then you find out that iterating on a fully Rust-based app is sloooow

Maybe not anymore. I don't work on any Chrome-sized Rust codebases so I don't know, but iterating on anything is so much faster that it might work out fine.

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by sgarland on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:21AM (#50380235)
Eh, it’s still pretty annoying. I have a small voice chat app, and it easily takes a couple of minutes to build releases for all three platforms (MacOS, Linux, Windows) on a MBP.
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