Nov 5, 2026, 5:11 AMRust rocks! Discord is killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows 11, and the Rust rebuild uses just 290MB.
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/05/discord-is-killing-its-electron-app-that-can-eat-4gb-of-ram-on-windows-11-and-the-rust-rebuild-uses-just-290mb/
@amir Oh my! what I'm reading?
I would eagerly wait for it to be released soon.
The only reason why I don't use Discord is fucking Electron.
I doubt that it will be accessible though, especially if it uses GPUI. But I'll try to write an NVDA addon once it is out.
@amir I just hope they maid it accessible out of the box.
@amir Unpopular opinion (at least from a blind guy): Rust is great when you're a user, but it's awfully painful to read and to write in.
Nov 5, 2026, 12:46 PM@menelion Yes. Rust is a challenge to handle. But once, and if, done correctly, it produces outstanding results.
@amir I mean, I don't know why they decided to make its syntax so alien. Again, maybe it's because I'm blind, maybe it's because I come from a linguistic background initially, but to me it's simply painful to digest.
@amir Slightly concerned what this might mean for accessibility, but we'll see.
Nov 5, 2026, 1:53 PM@fireborn Well, at least it probably, or hopefully, makes writing an NVDA add-on for it easier compared with the super-inflated web app.
Nov 5, 2026, 3:30 PM@amir
So about half a CD-ROM worth of RAM...
Do they have a full copy of Unreal Tournament as an easter egg?
Nov 5, 2026, 3:55 PM@leeloo LOL - that remains to be seen.