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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by codazoda on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:59AM (#50404593)

One possible reasons is that all of those are compiled languages vs interpreted. It doesn’t sound like much but compiling your code for three plus platforms and distributing binaries adds just enough complexity and friction to make it feel a lot more difficult.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by spapas82 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:04AM (#50404633)

I agree with that yes but consider how many people would benefit. And how easy it should be for them to do the change (and compile). It's just tokens.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by 72deluxe on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:00AM (#50405131)

But "friction" is the job, and "complexity" is the job. That's why we're developers.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by bluGill on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:03PM (#50409581)

Modern CI systems have no problem building for 15 or 20 different platforms is what you need. There's a little bit of hassle of distributing binaries but again it's not a big deal for anyone who actually puts their mind to it.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by sitzkrieg on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:12PM (#50409629)

definitely dont mention setting up apple certificates/ code signing.

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