Discord

Discord's co-founder and CTO announced the desktop client is dropping Electron and the mobile app is abandoning React Native in favor of a Rust rewrite, with the new client using roughly 290MB of memory versus 1GB or more previously. The company claims markedly faster startup and interaction, and says the web client's logic layer will move to WASM instead of JS, though no release date is set. The move stands as a landmark case of a major client returning from web stacks to native rendering.