You can reduce this a huge amount by simply using it in a tab in a browser. When I'm travelling I use it this way, as it eats much less battery - I just pin a tab.
Thanks! The only Electron app I use is Visual Studio Code and it works great so was curious.
(Crazy btw that I get downvoted to oblivion within seconds for asking an honest question.)
an example -- i currently have 3 workspaces on my slack client (on linux) and it's currently using 500mb of RAM, which is insane for a chat client. the only thing using more ram is firefox with literally 25 tabs, including gmail's inbox and pocketcasts playing a podcast (~1gb).