Discord Rust client uses 70 percent less RAM than Electron
Original title: Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
New Rust client opens faster and consumes far less memory than the Electron version.
Discord's new Rust-based client launches faster than the old Electron app and skips the starting screen. With two accounts active the Rust version uses 290.2 MB RAM, roughly 70 percent below the Electron idle baseline. The app was built with GPUI and supports up to five concurrent accounts.
- Rust client opens in 1.5 seconds versus 5 seconds for Electron
- RAM usage 290.2 MB with two accounts
- Skips update modal and background update checks
- Built on GPUI framework from Zed editor
- Cold-start confirmed by Discord employees
- Organizations
- Discord
From the original article
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Discord’s current Electron client and its new Rust client launching side by side on two Lenovo ThinkPads running Windows 11 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.
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