News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM. Parent comment

Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by nextaccountic on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:21PM (#50383960)
It was real world use by COSMIC that motivated Iced to add a11y support in the first place

So Discord using gpui could mean it may get the needed features

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tensor on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:30PM (#50384070)
I don't understand. You can do accessibility with GPUI today. I linked a repo that shows how.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by ethin on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:49PM (#50384298)
Yes, and this is good progress (my comment downthread was before I just looked). According to it it uses accesskit, which is quite good already but still in development so accessibility would not be as good as using UIA directly. I am hopeful though that accesskit (which is also used in Godot) will keep getting better and these gaps can be closed.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tensor on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:01PM (#50384413)
Yeah, and big products like discord using them should help push that along.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by Klonoar on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:12AM (#50392497)
COSMIC runs a fork of iced and things don’t make it back upstream nearly fast enough due to the one-maintainer-bus-factor.

You can’t exactly lump them together.

[ Parent | on HN ]