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 @09:04AM (#50404634)

Probably at the edge of being a good example. I recently switched to zed because of how bloated VS Code is becoming. I think it gained it’s momentum by being small, but enshitification seems to come for all software.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by brettermeier on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:22AM (#50404784)

I don't know your Standards, but VS Code feels very smooth.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by brettermeier on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:00AM (#50412514)

Downvoted without reply, I like that. Give me your arguments or stfu

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by thunky on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:13AM (#50405242)

Based on the hype I tried zed thinking it would feel amazing compared to vscode, and it just didn't.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by letrix on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:45PM (#50409482)

What do you consider bloated on a VSCode install without any extensions?

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