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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by philistine on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:27AM (#50380297)
> [...] using this type of frameworks and toolkits means that a lot of useful (and sometimes "boring") things are already thought through and taken care of.

You're falling in the trap of the cross-platform dream. Electron takes insane decisions about how your app is going to achieve cross-compatibility in the name of allowing web devs to do the work. It is simply the wrong tool for the AI age, since a versatile web dev can turn to an AI to help them achieve the work.

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