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I agree, what's up with all these Electron apps. Based on memory usage currently, Skype is using 245MB, Slack is using 312MB and Spotify at 233MB. While Telegram is only using 78MB. And I have more active chats on Telegram too.

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> While Telegram is only using 78MB

My irssi seems to be using an order of magnitude less than that, 7.8 MB RSS.

Get off my lawn! :-/

(Yes, irc is unencrypted, but still...)

> 7.8 MB RSS.

It's as bloated as emacs!

> I agree, what's up with all these Electron apps.

The common theme seems to be developer convenience. What's best for users is no longer something developers consider when choosing tools.

That's okay for now. Until let's say majority of apps run on Electron. What's gonna be left for memory then.

That's when it's time to push users to get more RAM as the solution to their problems.

EDIT: /s

It's amazing how disconnected developers are when it comes to RAM, the steam user survey (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey) puts 30% at having 4GB or less, and that's an audience that trends towards the higher end.

For all the complaints of the mac book pro not having enough RAM, it had enough for 99.9% of people.

At the time, it seemed silly that I maxed out my laptop with 64 GB of RAM, but now, I'm starting to feel like it was good foresight.

Dude, I live in a third world where upgrading specs in a computer is really an after thought. As a developer, you should also think other parts of the world. I'm just saying. Majority of the laptops sold here has an average RAM of 4-8GB.

That's basically the same as the first world, plenty still have less then 4GB.

I was not being serious. I was speaking to exactly this problem. Even in the US, the vast majority of users aren't running top-of-the-line developer machines. I find the utter disregard for user resources to be a serious problem with today's developers.

Right, and when I'm a developer with a high end workstation laptop having resource problems, you can guarantee most users are going to have problems.

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