In 2026, every software team ends up in this position sooner or later.

Rewrite their software in Rust.

That’s exactly where the Discord dev team decided to go next.

They are rewriting Discord in Rust.

They say they have been doing this since 2018, though.

FYI, that’s like 8 years ago.

But hey, now they’re finally doing it for real. Maybe because Opus 5.5 came out. We don’t know.

Nevertheless, People are really excited about the change.

Every Discord user knows starting Discord takes an eternity.

Discord said it was because of their tech stack.

They were using Electron.js and React Native, and the performance hasn’t been great.

After they dropped both and rewrote in Rust, the performance skyrocketed.

They report that the load time has reduced from 5 seconds to… 0.33 seconds.

And it uses less RAM.

They are testing the change with 200 testers and say that an update is coming soon.

- Fee from Anime Coders