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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by the__alchemist on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:50AM (#50380642)
What you posted doesn't match my experience, so I curious how you arrived at the conclusion that building a GUI application is like building a web browser, and why the abstraction layers you described are necessary as a baseline.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by hendrikmans on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:57AM (#50380758)
But that's not what I wrote at all?
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tredre3 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:09PM (#50384480)
> so I curious how you arrived at the conclusion that building a GUI application is like building a web browser

The way you phrased it, it's not. However if you've used Discord, you know that to render it you're essentially rebuilding a web browser due to the sheer variety of formatting, images, animation, audio, videos, languages, widgets, and whatnot that must all coexist in arbitrary forms.

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