Worth adding to this, as we're already seeing a wave of projects claiming "we rewrote Discord to Rust before they did" or promising brand new client mod injectors.
⚠️ Do NOT blindly trust third-party custom clients. Discord's Gateway telemetry and connection monitoring are extremely aggressive. Writing an independent client from scratch is fundamentally different from injecting code into official builds. A single mismatched header, wrong fingerprint, or broken socket lifecycle won’t just error out, it will get your account permanently flagged and banned as a selfbot. Most of these "early rewrites" might in future lack 99% of internal anti-abuse logic.
⚠️ Expect a massive wave of scams and malware. With the native Rust client dropping, bad actors will flood modding community. If reputable mod devs say it will take months or might be outright impossible, no unknown developer has magically solved it on release week.
Stay safe, don’t risk your accounts.
We didn't forget about mobile, especially Android. Inspired by React Native, it drives the OS-native view layer through the same Rust codebase as the new desktop app.
I think it might be the most responsive app on my phone now?
Love watching vibecoders out-slopping discord when they announced rewrite of their client with their subpar unofficial implementation of limited set of features that barely works but loads 1ms faster and uses 2MiB less RAM. #discord