Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Discord is yet giving up connected Electron, the cross-platform model that lets developers physique desktop apps utilizing web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously dense connected strategy resources, and Discord is present moving its desktop app afloat to Rust - a modern programming connection designed for velocity and representation safety.

"We've been aboriginal adopters of Rust since 2018 and a batch of our infra, dependable tech, and adjacent immoderate of the existent lawsuit is already Rust, the beatified grail was getting the full lawsuit there," explains Discord main exertion serviceman Stanislav Vishnevskiy successful a post connected X. "That means Electron goes away, and truthful does React Native, m …

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