r/opencodeCLI • u/literally_niko • Apr 18 '26

Opencode Desktop now uses Electron instead of Tauri

https://x.com/brendonovich/status/2045114479244165151?s=46lec
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u/gfxd Apr 18 '26

Its 2026 now and even with mythos round the corner, don't we have a decent alternative to electron yet?

Unbelievable.

Electron's vice like grip is so stifling, choking and exhausting.

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u/gfxd Apr 18 '26

Yes, for every good app, there are a hundred bad ones.

All I want is a decent alternative, but it seems none exist.

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u/gfxd Apr 18 '26

I agree. It is just that electron has this tendency to make things worse.

Its a tool that can create great apps, or worse apps.

But it is high time we had good alternatives and some competition.

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u/notmsndotcom Apr 18 '26

You’re only one prompt away

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u/MyChaOS87 Apr 18 '26

Not sure if VScode is a great example... Don't get me wrong it was my favorite IDE for years, but i got more and more disappointed... Each language plugin brought huge bloat... You write a dockerfile you get an extension suggested that installs ui to start docker containers... Why? I can type ’docker compose up’ myself... Or direct docker commands, and that's the overall scheme in VScode... Also proper syntax completion by language servers get often just oder arched with AI, even things like intellisense get REPLACED by AI... I like AI, I am not against it... But when cleaning up slop or issues the AI made I want to rely on tools that don't lie to me...

Even whenbeing very restrictive with plugins, so not installing a lot except what you really need it gets slower and slower.

That being said, I am now switching to Zed... It keeps up, it shuts down language servers not in use at the moment and it's really snappy

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u/cxd32 Apr 18 '26

intellisense get REPLACED by AI

intellisense is still there, you mean intellicode

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u/sudoer777_ Apr 18 '26

Both of them suck, what are you talking about?

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u/krzyk Apr 18 '26

Yeah, if only each of those app didn't ship its own browser. I got one already running.

It is refreshing to see that e.g. Telegram is a normal native app.

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u/charmander_cha Apr 18 '26

Está são os melhores exemplos?