A "temporary" solution as the company optimizes desktop app performance

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Don't use Electron, discord devs.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    They're already using rust for their backend services. This seems like a good use case for dioxus/tauri

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't that just a rust wrapper of chromium or Firefox?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Good question, it's actually using the native webview component that the target OS already has installed. Electron bundles chromium in each of its compiled apps.

    Since tauri isn't running a whole browser to do its job it can typically do the same work faster. The trade off, of course, is that you need to be familiar with Rust code, but their dev team already is so that should be fine! If they have any hard dependencies on Node's libraries it could be an issue though.

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