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You mean they asked Claude to rewrite their app in Rust like fucking everyone else is doing rn?
The real question is which is the greater evil, AI or electron…
One steals ram you don't have, one steals ram you already own.
Sam altman interest piqued
Ngl I would rather use an awful Electron app than an AI slop "open source" rust slop.
Well, right now you can use the existing web client in Firefox.
In the future you may not.
It looks like it might be possible to target wasm (at least GPUI can), so hopefully Discord won't kill their web client.
If I have to use it, I'd much rather run their software in a sandboxed environment like a web browser than install a program that can then do whatever it wants with my user data.
Well, if they kill the web client, they will lose tons of users. I am on the web client right now, since their app is not working - again. This has been a common occurence on multiple machines, with different operating systems... They really should rewrite that shit.
I can't say they didn't, but at least they have a track record of doing Rust rewrites from pre-LLM days. As a fan of Rust, I wish it weren't a company like Discord getting the headlines for doing this type of thing.
https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust
The UI framework is literally vibe coded claudeslop by a guy who didn't know anything about graphics rendering by his own admission: https://youtu.be/j2goZBL156Q?t=2012
just checked this talk and holy shit, this is exactly how I imagined these kinds of meetings, just a bunch of guys that agree on everything they say and probably feel so smart about it
And yet the app that uses it (zed) is one of the most polished editors out there
My first thought also