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.