Discord Moves Desktop App From Electron to Rust for Lower Memory Use

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Discord is abandoning Electron, the framework that builds desktop apps from web technologies, for its desktop client. The company is shifting the entire client to Rust, a language focused on speed and memory safety. Discord has used Rust since 2018, and parts of its infrastructure, voice technology, and some client code already run on it. Chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy said on X that the goal was to bring the whole client to Rust, which also means phasing out React Native. The change is aimed at reducing the heavy system resource demands associated with Electron apps.

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