Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM 🙏 Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language. Details 👇Read original on X
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Discord moves its apps fully to Rust, dropping Electron
The move to Rust cuts memory use, which matters for users running Discord alongside other software.
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