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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hamandcheese on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:58AM (#50404582)
One good reason: extensibility. Pi is extremely malleable in ways that would probably be harder to achieve if it were in, say, Rust.

The resource usage of my harness is nothing compared to an electron app, and being able to easily customize it is more important to me than saving a few extra MB of ram.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by spapas82 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:14AM (#50404710)
I guess it depends on the harness, for example: chatgpt.exe right now is 1 GB on my windows machine. peseo.exe is 500 mb. and opencode.exe + bun.exe is 300 mb.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by chrismustcode on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:53PM (#50408388)
Chatgpt isn't a harness. OpenAI's harness is codex.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Uzazo on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:01AM (#50411853)
Of course it’s a harness. Every LLM chat interface is a harness.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by 2001zhaozhao on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:01AM (#50411286)
This is why I like Kotlin (or Java). You can get the extensibility of Python/JS at native speeds and full multi-threading, with fast compile speeds. It does use more memory compared to Rust though.
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