windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-starting-screen-and-70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
Discord is rebuilding its desktop app in Rust using the GPUI framework, replacing Electron. A demo showed the new client loading its friends list before the old app, and Task Manager listed 290.2MB of RAM while two accounts were signed in.
