Discord rewrote the PC application so that it would consume less memory - instead of Electron, they now use Rust, hinted Stanislav Vishnevsky, one of the founders of the service. Discord on PC is currently running on Electron. It's literally a browser within an app, which is why it eats up memory even when you're just chatting. After switching to Rust, performance should increase significantly and RAM costs should decrease. Nibkodili.

Discord rewrote the PC application so that it would consume less memory - instead of Electron, they now use Rust, hinted Stanislav Vishnevsky, one of the founders of the service. Discord on PC is currently running on Electron. It's literally a browser within an app, which is why it eats up memory even when you're just chatting. After switching to Rust, performance should increase significantly and RAM costs should decrease. Nibkodili.