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It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop.

It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.

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I'm unsure where I'm supposed to look. In the Task Manager, the app I created (Video Hub App), when running, is routinely between 40MB and 120MB under the "Memory" column. Are you saying there is RAM use tucked away under different row than the app name?

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Your app uses 150MB of ram upon launch.

It peaks to around 3GB during the hub creation (on a folder with ~100 videos but I see your demo is limited to 50).

It finally settles at 350MB.

Here's the breakdown: https://ibb.co/N9MYvNx

My guess is that what you view in your task manager is a single process, not all the processes started by your application.

The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.

It's not for the storage or ram space. It's for being inefficient which always making me doubt about the company culture. If you want native capabilities so much, just build a proper software for the platform. If VLC and Calibre can do cross platform, you can do it too.

It's not native though. It's just a webapp in a second browser without any of the usual browser features, and reduced sandboxing.

It's all the negatives of a webapp and all the negatives of a native app with none of the positives.

A website packaged with the Web browser isn't a native app.

How is 400MB trivial? I run more than 2 programs at once, and this adds up. Imagine if every trivial process in your OS used 400MB on startup. And what pisses me off, is when I have to close resource heavy electron applications (signal, vs code) running in the background to free up RAM.

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