Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron

[1_rick]

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in​

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/...70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in/

You can read the rest of it but that's all you need to know. They're working on a native UI version in Rust, and it uses a ton less ram and starts so fast they got rid of the loading screen. They say it make Teams and WhatsApp for Windows 11 look like pigs (~1GB of RAM just to start.)

 

[DukenukemX]

I would rather replace Discord considering their intention to collect peoples age information.

 

[MrGuvernment]

Amusing this is coming from Discord, a bloated insecure app from the ground up, maybe it has gotten better, or maybe they realized how inefficient and bloated their own app was and why people went to use 3rd party front ends for it..

 

[1_rick]

how inefficient and bloated their own app was

Probably this. Electron apps have no business on an 8GB laptop (or, really on most any other computer.)