Discord is rebuilding its desktop and mobile apps in Rust
The company’s CTO says the apps will share code across platforms, with user testing planned but no date announced.
Discord is rebuilding its desktop and mobile apps using the Rust programming language. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, says the team hopes to begin testing with users soon, but did not give a date.
According to Vishnevskiy, the move will replace Electron on desktop and React Native on mobile, two frameworks used to build apps. Mobile will retain a native interface while sharing application code with desktop through Rust. He said the new interface uses the GPUI framework.
Vishnevskiy said Discord has used Rust since 2018, including for parts of its infrastructure, voice technology and existing client.
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