Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
by skydhash on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:42PM
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In lot of corporate offices, it’s SFF and 1 liter desktops with 8 gb of ram and windows. You use Slack and Chrome, plus MDM software and you barely have enough compute left to move the cursor.
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
by drdexebtjl on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:51PM
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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
by asimovDev on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:51AM
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I really feel for them. Back in the day I couldn't play a game while I had Skype open. I was so happy when my friend groups switched to TeamSpeak which used miniscule amount of resources in comparison to Skype. Well until 2015 came and we all switched to discord lol
Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
by elxr on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:07PM
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> there is too much FUD about it, IMO.
Yeah it's not as bad as people make it seem, but it's also far from ideal. Especially with how many tools we have nowadays to build performant desktop apps, a company of that size should really not be using electron if they know better.
I run Slack, Discord, Signal, Bitwarden, Asana, VS Code, GitHub - all idling quietly on a 16GB MPB M2. Was the same on my M2.
It's overblown, I don't care about Electron, how it's made (I understand how), who makes it, no dog in the hunt, but there is too much FUD about it, IMO.