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This is really cool. My only disappointment is that this could’ve been a non-electron alternative to the discord client, but they chose to build on electron anyways.

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Cross platform GUI apps besides electron are basically dead at this point. No one wants to deal with Qt's weird licensing.

At this point effort should just be spent optimizing electron IMO including just using the latest version.

With that it would waste more resources on running a partial web browser for one small GUI application where soon any system with 8GiB RAM or less is considered an obsolete and unsupported user experience when starting more than a few instances as they aren't shared nor do they have a small memory footprint.

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