The entire point everyone is making is that this ISN'T about some fine point. This is a completely stupid approach. It should offend anyone on first sight or thought. There is no valid way to think up this idea for this way to get this result, and not immediately discard it as ridiculous.

If you're brainstorming initially for possible ways to get from your house to the one across the street, sure maybe one of the possible ways is to give yourself some minor injury, call an ambulance, go to the hospital, and then give them the other address when they take you back home (setting aside thatthey don't take you back home, let's pretend they do). But you don't actually do it. You reject that idea as outlandish and crazy.

Even IF it worked fine. Maybe you can't actually successfully get an ambulance to function as a taxi, but Uber will just fine. It would outwardly function just fine to call uber to take from one address to another. Yet you still do not use that approach to that problem. You consider it for one second and conclude that that would be outlandish and crazy. Just utterly gross and stupid and fucking inexcusably so.

the bit about web tech and electron is a direct response to a common criticism i see about software written with these frameworks, they have a reputation for being slow and bloated and from experience i know it doesn't have to be that way, what makes web apps bloated and slow is usually poor design choices. the point i was trying to get across here is that this code written this way would've been slow if it was C too, it's not always about the tech stack. same goes for the comments about nodejs, i love node, but some of the packages in the ecosystem really let it down, and it means node devs get a bad wrap.

i know my general tone isn't great, i do feel for the package maintainer and tried to get in touch to get ahead of this but didn't find a way to do so. though in my defence, this is far from the first time i've tweeted about discord bogging down a system and 99.9% of the time they've gone nowhere, let alone reached hackernews, i've never had "a platform" so i've never had the need to worry about things like this before, it's something i've noted for the future, so i hope that makes things a little more understandable.