I love Atom, but it along with Chrome it eats all my memory with just a few open files/tabs! Why would an editor and a thin (!) client use gigabytes of RAM?! Re

I love Atom, but it along with Chrome it eats all my memory with just a few open files/tabs! Why would an editor and a thin (!) client use gigabytes of RAM?! Remember when computers had just 48KB of RAM and did great things?