Post from Jan 18, 2026

Started the long-pending rewrite of Easy Diffusion&rsquo;s server code. v4 intends to replace the Python (and PyTorch) based server with a simple C++ version. The reason for rewriting the server in C++ is to achieve sub-second startup time for the UI, and to reduce the download size (won&rsquo;t need to distribute Python along with Easy Diffusion) or mess with conda/venv etc. And it&rsquo;s also…