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Discord is rewriting its entire desktop client in Rust with a native GPUI-based interface (dropping both Electron and React Native) (lemmy.ml)
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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I'm still a bit skeptical of the Rust bandwagon, I am very happy to see Electron going away.

(I wonder if the current RAM crisis is making developers rethink their Electron choices.)

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might be a consideration, but I would assume they're doing this, because they can use LLMs to do the rewrite.

Language models are fairly good at translating between languages (so long as the semantics don't differ too much) and they're fairly good for building software that already exists, because all the requirements are already defined.

And then Rust just has lots of advantages with the one disadvantage that writing it by hand takes relatively much time. If you're not writing it by hand, you don't care about that.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IIRC, Discord is famous for making rewrites in rust even before LLMs; eg: that time they rewrote their backend from Go to Rust (but i'd still not be too much trustful; they switched to Rust because Go had a bug but that bug was actually fixed since a few releases and they could've just updated but instead choose to rewrite)

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, that might have just been the final straw that broke the camel's back. I always think of this rant, which definitely feels like there's probably lots of shortcomings that you can look past momentarily, but eventually come back to haunt you: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride