Same here, it's really nice to have VSCode, atom, slack, etc.
RAM is pretty cheap, I'd rather put money towards a better Linux machine than give that money to Microsoft for the OS.
RAM is pretty cheap, I'd rather put money towards a better Linux machine than give that money to Microsoft for the OS.
Eventually, when every single desktop app is like this, and we can no longer keep shoving more RAM into computers, we'll realise that the only way to manage such hogs is to pickle background apps to disk Android-style and to just have one foreground app in memory. And that's when we'll all realise we might as well switch to Chrome OS. Well played, web devs, Google says thanks.
Or maybe Electron is a conspiracy by someone heavily invested in RAM production?
No, the real casualty in this cycle have been spinning rust, good old hard disks. Their performance was never great but a sure fire way to kill it and make sure it never recovers is to trigger a full fucking unthrottled index scan at every boot that inevitably finds nothing changed. Looking at you Dropbox.
Everything is cheap when you have a high salary even by your rich country's standards. There are other users outside of SV.
I rather put money towards responsible developers than contributing to the waste of more computing power and more electricity than Bitcoin wastes, while doing basically nothing over what Sublime Text can do.
I mean, if there were no other way to code a text editor I could accept the idea of Atom. But with faster alternatives, it is just an exercise in consumerism. Wasting computing power for the sake of wasting computing power.
It's the rolling coal of computers.
There are many laptops which have fairly low total system RAM limits. Those in our workplace are 4GB and 8GB for example. Once you hit that limit the cheapness of RAM is irrelevant.