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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by cedws on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:59PM (#50407519)

I’m disappointed to see the continued proliferation of JavaScript and TypeScript. I cannot fathom why people are using these garbage languages still when we have so much better options and code is essentially free now.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hyperhello on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:02PM (#50407537)

These languages were developed for hypertext. Discord is hypertext. The question is why Rust or C++ or anything would be so suitable for developing chat rooms; it’s not even clear why JavaScript would necessarily be slower after being statically compiled.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by cedws on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:05AM (#50411309)

It’s not just about speed. Have you ever come across the utter tire fire that is npm? Or the horrors of [object Object]?

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hyperhello on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:41AM (#50412403)

Yes, the first one is not required and shouldn’t be used, write your own leftpad then. The second is about as awful as getting NaN, which is to say not, and can be overridden in the prototype anyway if you want more casual logging.

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