Discord Plans to Replace Electron with a Native Rust Client

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Discord is preparing a significant change to its desktop and mobile application architecture. According to Inven Global’s November 4 report, co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy described plans to rebuild the client around Rust, replacing Electron on desktop and React Native on mobile. The desktop interface is being built using GPUI, a native Rust UI framework, rather than Tauri or another wrapper around a web interface.

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Discord Plans to Replace Electron with a Native Rust Client