Dev rewrites OpenCode Browse in Rust for $60, cutting memory use by orders of magnitude
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-15
Developer thdxr rewrote OpenCode Browse in Rust, reimplementing the needed parts of Playwright/Patchwright, for only $60. The benchmarks show big wins: binary size drops from 53-64 MB to 4.3 MB (1.9 MB gzipped); relay idle memory from 353 MB after 6 days to 6 MB; per-session connector memory from 190 MB to 3.5-5.6 MB.
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