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Comment by gowld | Hacker News Reader

Generally I agree with you but for Electron we're talking about own-goals the developers inflict on themselves. No one outside of the HNosphere uses Electron apps.

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Plenty of people outside of HN use Slack, Discord, Atom, VS Code, Skype and Twitch.

Right now I have Discord, VS2017, a Postgres IDE and a bunch of Chrome tabs open. Task manager reports for memory usage (descending order): Discord: 1168,4MB, VS2017: 463MB, Chrome tabs: about 300MB each, PostgresTool: 152MB and the rest below 100MB. If I dont include all the chrome tabs, Discord uses more memory than all the other apps together, and some of them are "big" apps.

So my 32GB RAM, high specs system, is able to run only up to ~ 30 instances of Discord, not counting even the OS.

Wtf. It feels like malware.

That's why I have a simple rule:

"No JavaScript on the desktop"

And suddenly 8GBs of ram is at least 4x too much(Linux) even when I'm using "bloated" Java apps...

https://suckless.org/sucks/web/:

  Millions of jobs are based on outputting HTML in an inefficient way.

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