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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by satvikpendem on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:57AM (#50380748)
You know what they meant. This is the same argument that artists used when AI image generation came out, it's not very helpful. Being able to do something and actually doing it are different and we all benefit when web app makers rewrite their apps into native languages.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by pjmlp on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:25PM (#50381782)
Some of us are long enough in the business, to know that having Web development skills doesn't preclude having native development skills.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by satvikpendem on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:24PM (#50382520)
Maybe that was true in the past but it has definitely not been the case for the past 15 or 20 years for web developers who actually don't know anything about native development.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by pjmlp on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:28PM (#50384054)
Well if you put it that way, some of them don't even know anything about the browser technology that powers their JavaScript framework used to generate static content.
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by satvikpendem on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:05PM (#50385808)
That is correct.
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