Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Doohickey-d on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:28AM (#50404391)

One nice thing about Électron is that it supports accessbility and non-english IMEs correctly, and thus all Electron apps have decent accessibility out of the box, comparable to web apps.

Most Rust GUI toolkits, at least in 2025, did not have that good accessibility or IME: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...

Hopefully this has gotten better and the new discord client isn't worse in that regard.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by robin_reala on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:47AM (#50404492)

GPUI has a single-paragraph accessibility section in their guide that defers to AccessKit[1] for everything, and points to a raw RS file for more info.[2]

I haven’t tested it or written anything using GPUI, but I’d expect it to be considerably harder work, based on the maturity of the web stack in this area. My assumptions have definitely been proven wrong before though… Anyone from Discord working on accessibility want to chime in?

[1] https://accesskit.dev/

[2] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/gpui/...

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by numpad0 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:52PM (#50409527)

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by lifthrasiir on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:36AM (#50410699)

Windows IMEs used to emulate the style of edit control to display its candidate text, and the guess was frequently wrong. That's hardly a new problem for East Asian.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by numpad0 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:04AM (#50411864)

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