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I'm torn here because I didn't know what's worse... Electron shit or AI shit.
On the plus side, the AI shit will at least be a proper application and not a web browser pretending to be an application.
I wonder how long it will take for Vencord to work on it though.
Electron isn't a problem when it's used well, eg VS Code. At least you know what you're getting.
You have no idea what the code is doing is when some numbnut vibe codes it without a thorough review.
Electron is a problem in the sense that it's completely unnecessary - just run a website and leave it at that. Who wants to install a bunch of useless chrome instances pretending to be other programs? If you want to make a program, make a program. If you want to make a website, make a website. Simple
The JS in your electronic bloat could be just as vibes as the code in your standalone app, too.
You wouldn't run a website because a website doesn't have the capabilities of a desktop app. No one wants to run VS code from their browser. People don't even want to run outlook or teams from their browser. A desktop app results in far superior UX in most cases for tools that people need to use frequently.
Electron allows you to use existing webdev teams to build apps for basically every platform in existence, which is exactly why companies use it.
Alternative platforms exist but not every company has the right people to build on top of them and it's difficult to argue against the cost savings of using electron.
It's not really that complicated. Many of these apps simply wouldn't exist on Linux or Mac if it weren't for electron or similar frameworks. Companies might build a website (if it makes sense) and a Windows app and that's it, depending on the target audience
And yes, you might get vibe bloat in the framework code but that isn't an argument against electron, since literally any framework could be and probably is infected with AI bloat at this point.
Why wouldn't people want to run them in a browser? Running an Electron app is literally just running them in a browser, it's just that the browser is disguised as not a browser.
It's unnecessary bloat. They're cross-platform because I hey are literally just webapps masquerading as actual programs.
AI shit is worse cause of the issue with AI being trained on everything?
The flip side is that Electron shit is worse because it's bloated to high hell, and it's literally just a browser. It's completely unnecessary.
Tough question. I hate electron so much that I might be leaning towards AI shit.
I kinda feel the same way and I don't know how I feel about feeling that way.
I think I might actually hate Discord more then both, so my hope is that this just makes them leave my communities alone somehow
vencord is unlikely to continue unless they reverse engineer the new binary, and if they do, guess how they're probably gonna do that.
They probably will continue by just using the web version of discord which is basically the same as the app.