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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by giancarlostoro on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:21PM (#50407695)

One thing Electron has over Tauri for Discords case is WebRTC. I tried making an open source alternative using Tauri and got plenty far, then I learned that WebRTC on Linux is not OOTB since its still experimental. Webkit on Linux requires WebkitGTK, so everything under the sun out there that had “webviews” cross-platform cannot do WebRTC ootb.

At least now Discord will consume your GPU vram while you game.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Sean-Der on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:29PM (#50407762)

This is so close to being fixed!

I am guessing this is just capture/playback code issue? You have a portable WebRTC stack in rust https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc

I haven't used Tauri myself but this sounds like a fun thing to go fix. Silly this is a blocking issue.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by giancarlostoro on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:20PM (#50409918)

I think I wound up hacking something in Rust which is less than ideal felt hackish, at that point I was better off just remaking the UI in an actual native UI stack.

Still too many Rust UI stacks are GPU driven.

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