alt Hacker NewsI had a script in another language. It was node, took up >200MB of RAM that I wanted back. "claude, rewrite this in rust". 192MB of memory returned to me.
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ricardobeat • yesterday at 4:26 PM
This is sad to see. Node was originally one of the memory efficient options – it’s roots are solving the c10k problem. Mind sharing what libraries/frameworks you were using?
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vunderba • yesterday at 8:35 PM
I used to have a bunch of bespoke node express server utilities that I liked to keep running in the background to have access to throughout the day but 40-50mb per process adds up quickly.
I’ve been throwing codex at them and now they’ve all been rewritten in Go - cut down to about 10mb per process.
Solving the big RAM shortage one prompt at a time.