Discord ditches Electron for native app with lower RAM usage
archb · hn · 2026-11-05
Per The Verge, Discord is ditching Electron for its desktop app; the new client uses noticeably less RAM. The move is drawing discussion on Hacker News about the trade-offs of moving off web-based desktop frameworks.
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