There was already an electron-free client for discord a while back, but they interfered with it. At this point, there's nothing at all impressive about this. It's not hard to ask AI to "RIIR" as been shown many times.
Swiffy0 5 minutes ago [-]
Not sure what to think of this.
Sure, a Rust implementation will perform better and use less RAM, but it's quite obvious that the transition to Rust will be done almost entirely by AI.
Don't get me wrong, the AI coded Rust version of Discord will most likely work just fine. The thing I'm wondering about is if it's a good idea to rewrite your whole codebase (which I assume is handwritten since Discord predates AI coding) with AI because now there is nobody that knows how it really works - I'm wondering what's the value of having a human-written codebase + the people who wrote it. Just feels like one shouldn't throw that into the trash like it's nothing?
kombookcha 50 seconds ago [-]
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gjsman-1000 3 minutes ago [-]
Here's the critical assumption: Somebody has to know how it works, in order for it to be usable.
That's not actually true. Nobody understands everything about how an airplane works, not even the lead engineers. Nobody understands everything about how a car works, or how medical billing works, or how taxes work, or how traffic flow works, or how a CPU works, or how almost anything works. You just need to understand the broad picture and be able to find the details when necessary.
Insanity 18 minutes ago [-]
Maybe the good thing to come out of the RAM crisis is that engineers will care about memory usage again lol.
himata4113 17 minutes ago [-]
The bad thing here is that modding discord will become significantly harder and might have been their original intention here.
muddi900 11 minutes ago [-]
Some vibekiddie will reengineer this, and mod it.
Daedren 8 minutes ago [-]
I've never used GPUI. Does GPUI provide the same assurances of accessibility? Of proper CJK rendering?
Activities will apparently still use Tauri. Is that going to be a compatibility nightmare due to WebKit? (At least until CEF comes out)
Venn1 10 minutes ago [-]
The Linux desktop client was using a bit more memory than I expected. 1326 MB from a cold start, and I'm only in 11 servers.
pipe01 6 minutes ago [-]
RIP mods
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eastbound 15 minutes ago [-]
That's a direct benefit from AI.
If all products ditch Electron, it satisfies the NSA requirements of having AI-generated backdoors on your computer, while allowing you to reduce your RAM consumption and letting this precious silicon for Sam Altman (He's quoted saying RAM is better spent in data centers than in personal computers - and in an era where everything is Cloud, one might wonder why the base Macbook Pro has 32GB).
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Sure, a Rust implementation will perform better and use less RAM, but it's quite obvious that the transition to Rust will be done almost entirely by AI.
Don't get me wrong, the AI coded Rust version of Discord will most likely work just fine. The thing I'm wondering about is if it's a good idea to rewrite your whole codebase (which I assume is handwritten since Discord predates AI coding) with AI because now there is nobody that knows how it really works - I'm wondering what's the value of having a human-written codebase + the people who wrote it. Just feels like one shouldn't throw that into the trash like it's nothing?
That's not actually true. Nobody understands everything about how an airplane works, not even the lead engineers. Nobody understands everything about how a car works, or how medical billing works, or how taxes work, or how traffic flow works, or how a CPU works, or how almost anything works. You just need to understand the broad picture and be able to find the details when necessary.
Activities will apparently still use Tauri. Is that going to be a compatibility nightmare due to WebKit? (At least until CEF comes out)
If all products ditch Electron, it satisfies the NSA requirements of having AI-generated backdoors on your computer, while allowing you to reduce your RAM consumption and letting this precious silicon for Sam Altman (He's quoted saying RAM is better spent in data centers than in personal computers - and in an era where everything is Cloud, one might wonder why the base Macbook Pro has 32GB).