Discord is finally getting rid of Electron! Co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy has confirmed that Discord is rebuilding its client in Rust, and it’ll be using GPUI to handle the desktop interface. Discord also shared an early Windows 11 screenshot of the new app written in Rust, listed as “Discord Phoenix,” and it’s using just […]
It probably won’t, but honestly there aren’t that many features the desktop client has that you can’t just get by using the browser webapp (Keyboard shortcuts, and the “now playing” feature that is a privacy mess, are the two biggest ones that come to mind right now)