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Discord Blog
Company blog · discord.engineeringprogrammingsystems
Discord Blog is the company blog at discord.engineering, writing about programming and systems. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Discord's engineering blog as a source on mobile app engineering, especially its experience with React Native on iOS and Android and its push request handling. Commenters cite it for those points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
React Native is no panacea. For example, Discord has found it unsuitable for Android so far. [1] https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late...
Comment linking /using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933
on “It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app”Submitted How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage as a story · 382 points
HN discussionI found this post educational: https://discord.engineering/how-discord-handles-push-request...
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on “Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?”Submitted Using React Native: One Year Later as a story · 127 points
HN discussion> slow as hell A bit of an exaggeration. It's not as fast at math as Java. It's quite faster than Ruby (while keeping coder-friendly features such as auto-rollup to bignums). If you use pattern-matching correctly, it is EXTREMELY fast at I/O or binary parsing. That puts it in a unique space of "people who don't want to sit on the JVM yet want a fully-functional language that has an accessible syntax AND macros AND m…
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on “Elixir Design Goals (2013)”Submitted Handling push request bursts of over a million per minute with Elixir’s GenStage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAccording to discord ( https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late... ): Unfortunately Android devices have much greater variance in performance and tend to trail significantly behind iOS. We were able to get our app running fairly quickly, but the performance — specifically on touch events was not at an acceptable level even on higher end devices. In addition at that early stage there was still a l…
Comment linking /using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933
on “Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning?”The Discord iOS app is built with React Native: https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late... And it's quite good by most accounts. They also have a showcase of other projects built with React Native on their official site: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
Comment linking /using-react-native-one-year-later-91fd5e949933
on “React Native ART and D3”
