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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by bluGill on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:45PM (#50409484)

A cross platform webcam library isn't that hard to build at C++. I mean, it's tedious, and having to support multiple different operating systems makes it harder, so it certainly is going to cost a small pile of money, but this is not hard. The pile of money needed won't be all that large. Mind you, I prefer to use something that's off the shelf rather than writing my own, but it would not be hard to write my own.

The hard part of all webcam libraries is all the different webcams running all their different proprietary protocols.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by MindSpunk on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:12AM (#50410856)

Write the code or build the code? That's always the problem with C++ libraries.

It's not that difficult to write cross platform C++ code. Consuming the dependency is always painful. What build system does it use? What compilers does it support? How do you get the code? There is 0 standardization for these things.

C++ code isn't always that portable either. Old code in a new compiler is very likely to break on warnings, especially if the old code made the high quality decision to hard code -Werror in their build system.

From personal experience Rust as a package and ecosystem is far more portable than C++.

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