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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (Rust rewrite) - Link updated following AI detection in the comments (www.theverge.com)
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Edit: old post is someone is curious: https://dev.to/jamilxt/electron-vs-gpui-what-discords-290-mb-rust-rewrite-can-and-cannot-prove-34b6

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[–] 3 points 2 days ago*

Yes Discord's been using Rust for a long time, I meant the client itself. The infrastructure has been been in Rust for a while. gpui wasn't a thing in 2019 so they couldn't have started back then.

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