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Discord Gives Its Desktop App a Diet Without Asking the Browser Tabs to Leave
· New York time
Discord is moving its desktop app away from Electron and fully to Rust, and the new app uses less RAM. Electron is a framework for building desktop applications with web technologies, while Rust is a programming language designed for speed and memory safety. For users who keep Discord open alongside games, creative tools or other applications, lower memory use can make a practical difference. The update concerns the machinery under the chat window rather than a new reason to post in it. A service that remains open for long periods has an incentive to be less demanding of the computer it occupies. The change is also a reminder that improvements do not always arrive as a new button. A creator may care as much about keeping a broadcast and a chat running comfortably as about another feature promising to transform the community. An application that uses fewer resources can leave more room for the rest of the work. Discord's new pitch is refreshingly modest by software standards: the chat app should take up less space in the machine. It is a rare upgrade that does not demand more attention from the user. The computer may even have enough memory left to remember what the user opened it to do.
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