Discord drops Electron and rebuilds its desktop client in Rust

TechnologyInternationalWindows LatestNov 4, 2026, 9:24 PMAI summary

Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy confirmed the company is rebuilding its desktop client in Rust and will use GPUI for the interface, instead of Electron and React Native. The company shared an early Windows 11 screenshot of the new app, called "Discord Phoenix", using 290.2 MB of RAM. Discord had acknowledged its Windows app could reach 4 GB of memory and was testing a client restart when usage exceeded that threshold.

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Discord is rebuilding its desktop client in Rust, moving away from Electron and React Native
The interface will use GPUI, not Tauri, according to CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy
The early "Discord Phoenix" screenshot on Windows 11 shows 290.2 MB of RAM

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