Even the guys who invented Electron (developers of the Atom text editor) stopped using it years ago and switched to Rust when writing their new editor, Zed.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 days ago
I think that the headline says more about Electron than it does about Rust.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Maybe we don’t want to use JavaScript for literally everything.
It’s great to see it. I wonder how much of this push comes from the high price of memory.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 days ago
The price of memory-thing is probably not that important as compared to the AI-assisted coding thing. Making things in Rust when you have access to AI tools is dead simple, which was always the argument for making things in Electron. Porting things from one language to another also happens to be one of the sweet spots for AI coding tools, they thrive on tasks that have very clear specs - an already existing codebase with tests is just about as clear of a spec as you can get.
Scrollone@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Yeah exactly. “Just” 240 MB, it’s still a lot for a glorified chat app
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 days ago
Perhaps it’s vibecoded slop?
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 days ago
I’d be willing to bet $100 that AI assistance was involved in creating this new client, yes.
Similarly I’d bet the same amount that AI assistance was involved in building the former electron-based client
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Anything new coming from any non-bootstrapped company is likely slop
Lojcs@piefed.social 5 days ago
240 is quite little considering how much media there’s in it
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Windows 98 required far less disk space and was a complete operating system - that is if you consider Win98 an operating system…
Shartyfartblast@piefed.zip 5 days ago
SP2 was aight
MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 4 days ago
have you seen how much memory a single webpage in chrome uses?