Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
by tredre3 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:09PM
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> 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.
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.