Close to the metal is back: native apps, Ghostty, UEFI, WASM games

'Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why' (50403507) pulled the familiar complaint that Electron's real value was always cross-platform convenience. One commenter hopes LLMs trigger a wave of native rewrites in Rust with GPUI or C++ with Dear ImGui. Another noted that Teams and new Outlook look light on paper because their windows run under the Edge process name.

Libghostty 1.0 (50399933) was celebrated as a rare 1.0 in an age of perpetual 0.x software, though one person asked why it is C rather than Zig with a C interface. First steps in bare-metal UEFI programming (50394855) got thanks, and Need for Speed Underground 2 running in the browser (50403052) sparked a debate about whether WASM and WebGL can handle serious 3D without garbage collection pauses.

The pattern: builders are reaching for lower layers, helped by AI that lowers the cost of rewriting. The open question is whether anyone ships native at scale or just talks about it.