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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Is Rust as blazing fast as Electron is slow?

Electron is not necessarily slow - see Visual Studio Code; it's certainly not as reactive as Sublime Text, but it's fast/reactive enough.

I know, it was a (admittedly vague) joke.

People rag on Electron with the same shallowness as they praise Rust. I bet you can make slow things in Rust. It's all a soup of trade-offs, resource management and hype.

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Just look at the numbers.

What does that mean? The numbers show that a lot of companies are using Rust. Which numbers do you think make it seem niche?

The numbers show that Rust has ~2% market share compared to Js/Ts/Java/etc it is nothing.

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Electron is almost never a great choice for anything. It saddens me to see people on a website for nerds defend it.

What is "a great choice"?

In my opinion, highly biased - Lazarus/lcl, wxwidgets, Qt, imgui, in no particular order.
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