Discord is rebuilding its client in Rust and dropping Electron
Stanislav Vishnevskiy says Discord has used Rust since 2018 and now plans a shared Rust codebase for desktop and mobile, with native mobile interfaces and user testing ahead.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: The Verge
Why it matters
Discord runs alongside games on the same machine, so client memory and CPU use compete directly with the activity its users opened it for. A native Rust client that holds up in public testing would remove a long-running complaint and give Discord one shared codebase across desktop and mobile.
Discord had more than 90 million daily active users in Q4 2025, according to its internal data. At that scale, co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy chose a short post on X, dated November 4th, to outline a rebuild of the software those users open every day.
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