Discord's Ground-Up Rebuild Aims To Slash RAM From Gigabytes To Megabytes

At idle on my PC with a large server list & numerous friends, Discord typically hovers around 800-900 MB of RAM consumption, ...

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 ...
InfoWorld

Python is de-jitted but still de-lovely

Python jettisons the native JIT, at least for now A promising experiment in natively speeding up CPython has come to a halt ...
BBC

Can apps teach you a language?

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Have you ever used Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu or perhaps another language-learning app? How did you get on? Some people love the convenience of these ...