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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by debazel on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:07AM (#50404250)
The limitations are a large reason for why they're so resource efficient in the first place.

If you just reimplement Electron in a native language then you get... Chrome, which is already written in C++. The majority of RAM usage in Electron applications is from the native parts of Chrome itself and a decent ~40 MiB chunk for the Node.js runtime.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hobo123 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:55AM (#50412870)
Name one feature that is a reason for a GUI framework to require lots of resources.

To me it seems like all frameworks and apps use much more memory than 10 years ago, but don't really offer more features.

Maybe a really young GPUI still has limitations, but I doubt it would suddenly need to use 5x as much memory if you added them.

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