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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by itopaloglu83 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:22AM (#50403935)
On another note, Microsoft Teams and new Outlook use very little amount of memory on paper, because their main windows show up under the Edge name. It’s a Microsoft way of solving the high ram usage problem.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by goda90 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:34AM (#50404014)
WebView2. Other applications can also use it but it seems like there's less out-of-the-box functionality than Electron
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by jasonvorhe on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:42AM (#50404067)
By being dishonest and misleading?
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pwg on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:08AM (#50404255)
When has Microsoft not been dishonest and misleading? Being dishonest and misleading has been Microsoft's entire game plan since all the way back into the Bill Gates era.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by lunar_rover on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:49AM (#50404507)
By reusing the system webview? It's what web frameworks should've done.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by snarfy on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:03AM (#50404625)
When they can all share the same Electron implementation instead of individual copies it reduces memory quite a bit. I'm not trying to defend Electron way of development but I can see why they pushed WebView2.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Scharkenberg on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:11PM (#50408540)
What an insane take. Also, the parent comment is incorrect, because the WebView2 memory is clearly attributed for both Teams and new Outlook in Task Manager.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by senorrib on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:50AM (#50404116)
That’s also how Tauri claims to use so little ram.
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