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There were a lot of hours spent and features unimplemented those days in want of RAM. Now we don't have to do that- we can do more, and we can do stuff way faster as developers.

If you spend a half hour over the entire life of your machine even considering RAM, you might as well double it for $30.

Using RAM is good. It's fast, it's cheap, and anybody with 8 gigs has it in abundance

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May I ask what unimplemented features you're referring to? I think one of the biggest issues the older crowd has with Electron apps is not only that they eat up 500MBs of RAM, but also that they only have a tiny subset of the features contained in apps that ran fine with 500KBs.

"Hello World" in Electron is 100MB. That's the bare minimum. It's quite insane.

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