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And by "rewrite", they mean point Claude at a vague spec and hope for the best.
This is the way
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.
This is the creator of BitWarden and we hear you! Because of this we're getting to release an update and give you what you want. AI, AI everywhere inside BitWarden for your convenience!
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.
You just know it’s basically vibe coded
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.
vencord is unlikely to continue unless they reverse engineer the new binary, and if they do, guess how they're probably gonna do that.
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.
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.
Fun! I’ll get to moderate a Discord server for blind people that blind people can’t use on desktop!
How would a rewrite cause this to happen? Is there something about Rust frameworks for the desktop that exclude accessibility features?
I’ve been working primarily with C#, but none of their frameworks exclude accessibility features… would be shocked AF if Rust frameworks just left that all out.
Without knowing what framework is in use its hard to say. Hell electron had accessibilty issues for a while
s/Discord is rewriting/Claude Code is rewriting/ig
Oh, so they're killing Vencord, the only thing that made their shit-ass service kind of viable? Very cool.
But not vesktop from my knowledge
You can also just use vencord in your web browser
Yeah, I'm glad we're no longer getting a browser pretending to be an application, but it sucks about the fact that Vencord is gonna be busted
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