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You mean they asked Claude to rewrite their app in Rust like fucking everyone else is doing rn?
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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.
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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
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And by "rewrite", they mean point Claude at a vague spec and hope for the best.
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Their client could be pure assembly, it's to little, to late.
Doesn't matter whatsoever since Discord as a company is total garbage.
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Sounds pretty good until you realize it'll be Claude generating all that code.
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Looks like the RAM crunch is starting to affect more than just greenfield projects.
Good. Electron is a bloody memory hog. We don’t need to squander 300Mb of memory just to display 15Kb of text. And then rinse and repeat with multiple other apps like BitWarden Desktop.
You listening, BitWarden? The browser add-ins are fine, the full-fat desktop app needs to lose some serious weight.
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They need it to use less memory since none of us are allowed to have any anymore
Electron apps are bloated in terms of disk and memory usage.
Presumably the rust version will be faster and leaner.
The one good thing that's come out of the RAMpocalypse is devs finally considering writing their software in more efficient programming languages and systems. Every app that gets away from web browser-based backends is a plus in my book, free memory on my system, and less energy usage to save my electric bill and CPU cycles - plus, it very lets older compys be useful again.
And I still will use web client, because disabling process detection doesn't actually disable it, it just stops showing it in your profile but still runs. (Last time I checked was a couple of years ago)
I’ll never touch Discord again after their Palantir ID verification bullshit
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Come on Teamspeak. Bring on the self hosted servers in TS6 bring back some of the good ole days.
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Fun! I’ll get to moderate a Discord server for blind people that blind people can’t use on desktop!
Seriously, anything on GPUI reads as “empty window” to screen readers.
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Great, but the client is not why Discord sucks.
Oh, so they're killing Vencord, the only thing that made their shit-ass service kind of viable? Very cool.
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