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Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.
Discord is moving its desktop app from Electron to Rust to use less RAM.
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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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