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Discord is ditching Electron for Rust, cutting RAM usage to just 290MB

Discord is replacing Electron with Rust and GPUI. An early build uses just 290MB of RAM, promising lower memory usage and ...

Discord Is Killing Its Electron App That Can Eat 4GB of RAM on Windows 11, and Its Rust Rebuild Uses Just 290MB

Discord is reportedly preparing to replace its resource-intensive Electron-based desktop application with a rebuilt version ...
ShiftDelete.Net

Discord Rust Rewrite Drops Electron, Cuts RAM Use to 290MB

Discord Rust rewrite replaces Electron with a native GPUI app. An early Windows build uses 290MB of RAM, while today's client ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Electron Framework Vulnerabilities - Shutting the Backdoor

The Electron framework plays an important role in many communication software applications - Skype, Slack, WhatsApp and GitHub to name just a few. As a cross-platform development tool it offers ...
Threatpost

Skype, Slack and Other Popular Windows Apps Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug

The team behind the popular open-source framework Electron warns a remote code execution flaw could compromise user privacy. Hundreds of software applications built using the developer framework ...
techtarget

How did an Electron framework flaw put Slack at risk?

An Electron framework flaw put major apps like Slack at risk of remote code execution. What is the flaw and what should be done to safeguard apps from similar vulnerabilities? The Electron framework ...
BetaNews

Apps based on Electron framework are vulnerable to attack

The Electron framework -- the basis of popular apps including Skype, Slack, Signal and WordPress -- has been found to contain a security flaw that leaves it vulnerable to attack. The GitHub-created ...