[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/3q62hw/on_what_...
Slack gets choppy (almost down to typing lag!) pretty quickly on a middle-tier Android phone and with Discord, it keeps snappy no matter what.
I'd say that Discord is the actual Slack killer today.
The secret to their app’s speed is using native components inside their React Native app. The chat UI (messages and input) for instance (IIRC) is native.
In what's being hailed as "the Xzibit pattern", SV app devs seeking to lower UI latency towards the level of a late-90's IRC client have made a discovery that has the Valley buzzing. As one dev we talked to explained, "we started putting native in your native, bro, and it's awesome! I can type on my phone smooth, it's like the app's running on my 16-core workstation!" Other devs have been overheard in coffee shops explaining software written in C++ as "native all the way down".
More on this developing story when we return, right after this commercial break.
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