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I guess that's really the thing - when a 2TB SSD is $100 and and 64GB RAM another $130... there's just not much ROI in trying to make the app more efficient. Your users won't care.

I personally still value it, and I try to build super-efficient apps, but... I'm the minority. And I can understand why.

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And as a percentage of resources, modern apps aren’t necessarily awful. If your IDE takes a gig of RAM, that’s absolutely a lot, but it’s relatively 1.6% of that 64GB system.

Sure, it can add up, and we shouldn’t waste resources just because we can, but I’m not going to lose sleep trying to optimize it when the rest of my system still has the other 98.4% of RAM available for use.

Except most users aren't running a developper's machine and have less than 8GB of ram. I think there is also still an awful lot of laptop users with 1366x768 screen resolution as it was still the default res on cheapest laptops a few years back.

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