Major Apps Move Off Electron

Discord is rebuilding its desktop client entirely in Rust and plans to remove Electron (and related React Native desktop bindings), showing a clear reduction in memory use (Discord demoed ~290MB on Windows versus ~1GB on the prior app). If other large apps follow, that would shrink the market power of Chromium/Electron wrappers and shift where performance, privacy, and security choices are made. — A wave of high‑profile apps abandoning Electron would reshape desktop software economics, weaken browser‑engine gatekeepers, lower resource and energy costs, and change how platform control and surveillance are exercised.