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His terminal app, rebuilt in Rust, uses a tenth of the memory of the web version

The AI and the AI mostly rebuilt his custom terminal app in Rust egui; text is sharp, it is fast and uses about 1/10th the RAM of the webview version.

How it works

  1. Two agent tools mostly rebuild his custom terminal app in a native framework
  2. Text is sharp, it is fast
  3. And uses about a tenth of the RAM of the webview version

Why it’s worth knowing

A tenth of the RAM is an argument no benchmark table improves on.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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