Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
- Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.
- 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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- Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.
- 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.
Sources: The Verge