Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
Discord's new Rust client launches instantly and uses far less memory than its Electron predecessor, loading the friends list before the old app finishes its starting screen. The GPUI-based app uses about 290MB RAM with two accounts versus 1-2GB for Electron, and shares Rust code across desktop, mobile, and web via WebAssembly. Private testing begins soon.
Key signals
- 01Rust client loads friends list before Electron finishes starting screen
- 02Uses ~290MB RAM with two accounts vs 1-2GB for Electron
- 03Built with GPUI; shares Rust code across desktop, mobile, web via WASM
Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why is on the Hacker News front page right now, submitted by thunderbong.
Discord’s Rust client opens before the Electron app finishes loading, skips the Starting screen and uses 290MB of RAM with two accounts.
— windowslatest.com
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