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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

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Tom Warren
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
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Discord is transitioning its desktop application from the Electron framework to Rust to improve performance and reduce memory usage. The company aims to achieve a more efficient client that consumes significantly less RAM while maintaining cross-platform consistency.

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This shift highlights a growing trend among developers to move away from resource-heavy web-based frameworks in favor of memory-safe, high-performance systems languages for desktop software.

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Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously heavy on system resources, and Discord is now moving its desktop app fully to Rust — a modern programming language designed for speed and memory safety.

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