Good, finally! Yet this branch started with the claim which isn't about Discord at all.

▲ doodlesdev 17 hours ago | parent [-]

This is a thread on the post about Discord and we're discussing the original statement below:

   > All the performance and other arguments are just not true, a well build webapp is often more performant than a native app especially for long scroll lists not even to mention accessibilty, extensions and more.

To which I think Discord's Rust rewrite is actually a great counter example. Epic Games's new launcher could've been too, but it's just vibe slop, unfortunately, not real engineering work.

The announced performance and memory usage also shows that using a browser tab (reducing overhead for separate browser processes) is still not enough to save memory compared to a native application, as this new Discord rewrite, with multiple accounts logged in, uses about the same memory as an empty new Chromium tab.

	▲	broken-kebab 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For starters, logic doesn't work this way at all. Counterexample doesn't make a valid argument against non-absolute statement. And the claim is that in-browser code can be as performant as natively compiled (as you conveniently quoted). So apparently building the case on Discord misses the point twice. Also for the sake of correctness: Discord CTO said the Rust-based app with 2 accounts uses around 290 MB which is significantly more than even the first empty tab uses (and each of the next will use smaller amount due to sharing).