Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by Jonovono on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:10AM (#50380073)

GPUI is pretty great. I whipped this up the other week and now I no longer need to open VSCode: https://diffy.run

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by wackget on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:14AM (#50380121)

How come it's presented as paid software when the binaries are available on GitHub?

Also naming your company "__slop" is a bold move!

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by Jonovono on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:19AM (#50380210)

It's open source! Just if you want to pay for it, i'd like to continue working on it and throwing tokens at it but I don't really expect to make much from it. Theres links to the download page at the bottom too: https://diffy.run/downloads/

Thanks haha hitslop, it means "a property used to increase the interactive touch area of a component beyond its visible layout boundaries", which I thought was so funny when I came across it. Owned the domain since 2020, knew it would come in handy eventually!

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by elxr on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:04PM (#50409248)

Have you considered zed instead? What does this offer that zed doesn't?

The diff viewing experience in zed is really polished IMO.

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by Jonovono on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:27AM (#50426115)

I actually really dislike the zed diff viewer. I tried to like it many times, couldn't get used to it. That's why I was still just using VSCode. That was about 6 months ago, so maybe I should take another look tho

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