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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pjmlp on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:05AM (#50411576)

Wrong, it only performs half way decently thanks to the amount of C++ and Rust extensions it makes use of.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by annex-winged-cr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:27AM (#50411985)

I keep hearing this, but I never see any evidence for it.

There's only 0.7% Rust code and not even any C++. And almost all of that Rust code is for the CLI, not the editor.

The rest is just plain TypeScript and other web technologies.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pjmlp on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:40AM (#50412058)

Missing the extensions that are required to make a bare bones VSCode actually usable.

Also the performance improvements on the bultin terminal thanks to using WebGL as if it was a native app.

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