flash on Nostr: ⚡️💻 NEW - Discord is dumping Electron and rebuilding its app in Rust. An early ...
⚡️💻 NEW - Discord is dumping Electron and rebuilding its app in Rust. An early build in a screenshot from its CTO runs at 290MB of RAM.
Last year Discord tested auto-restarting its current Windows app whenever it passed 4GB.
Testing with users comes "soon™", he says.
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