They used to be native with Kotlin on Android and IDK on iOS. Now they use React Native
Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
Here’s an idea to start making it better: ditch fucking electron. There are alternatives that won’t need complete code rewrite or language change (tauri, neutralino). Better yet, actually go ahead with a full language change and pick Dart + Flutter, that shit is crossplat.
But we all know they won’t, because fuck you, “ram is cheap”. Good luck upgrading the ram on your phone.
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It run fine on my 7 years old phone. Sure, native would be better, but electron mean they can make the website, the windows app and the android app all at one. So it’s worth it. Everyone on Lemmy is a programmer, so you should know how hard it is to support multiple version of a service with as much active developpement as discord.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
The point of Tauri and Neutralino is to do what Electron does without needing to bundle a whole, isolated chrome browser to make it pretend it is a native app
ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I didn’t know about that, sorry I missed it in you original comment. Then maybe theses frameworks are too young or have some kind of limitation, or just discord did not switch yet, but I hope they do. I know optimisation is not important for most company but if the switch is free they should do it.
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They would have to change some parts that interact with the OS. It’s probably not a big investment (for a company like Discord) but there are few reasons to do so, it won’t increase users (by much) and doesn’t affect revenue.
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tauri and neutralino also do that?
ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes mb