Discord’s new Rust client had its friends list loaded before the current Electron app could get past its loading screen, in a 15-second clip that we found on the X account of Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. The video had 2.3 million views at the time of writing, and Discord employees have confirmed that both apps were launched from a cold start.
Vishnevskiy also revealed that the 290.2MB RAM usage on the Task Manager of the new client, which shows up as Discord Phoenix, came with two accounts signed in at once, which justifies the already efficient RAM usage.
“The new Discord client using less RAM is just part of the story. Clicking around feels instant, I can’t go back. Check out the boot time,” Vishnevskiy wrote on X, and Discord’s official account also shared the clip with the current client on the left and the Rust rebuild on the right.
