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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by ajross on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:17PM (#50408586)
Exactly. This Discord Windows 11 rust app doesn't run on Mint or AOSP or an iPad and won't without extensive porting.

That can be done. It can be done well. It's not (or rather never has been) cheap or flexible or agile (in the market, not SWE sense). People love HTML/CSS/JS for very good reasons, and have been willing to accept the resulting tradeoffs.

Maybe that's changing now that you can vibe-port a lot of this stuff. We'll see.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by NetMageSCW on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:37PM (#50409088)
The article says they can use the Rust code with wasm as the iOS app and that includes iPad.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by dmix on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:47PM (#50410014)
Using Rust/wasm for a mobile apps sounds crazier to me than using Electron on desktop. I'm not sure of the details there but the APIs/SDKs bringing consistency is one of the best parts of mobile. There's less of an argument for that on desktop which moves slower and is mouse/keyboard instead of complex set of touch workflows, paging, and notification schemes.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by jen20 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:42AM (#50414786)
> People love HTML/CSS/JS for very good reasons, and have been willing to accept the resulting tradeoffs.

Developers do. Accountants do. Users just have a bunch of janky apps that don't work right without knowing why, and have no choice in the matter.

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