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Most people are upset with slack due to memory usage. I get that a chat app shouldn't use so much ram. But then there was a time even a browser wouldn't. This i
by dingo_bat 9y ago
Most people are upset with slack due to memory usage. I get that a chat app shouldn't use so much ram. But then there was a time even a browser wouldn't. This is how software has always grown. Windows XP minimum ram 64M, windows 7 wants minimum 1G. But we are all fine with it because the hardware has also grown. So to those who have a problem with slacks memory usage ask yourself: why are you using a machine with less than 32G of ram?
- na85 9y agoSo it's okay for a chat app to be a resource hog for no other reason than developers that are incompetent and "we have lots of ram today"?
- pdimitar 9y agoComparing an OS and a chat client, really? Very wide conflation. I'm fine with things using a bit more resources, but not three or four orders of magnitute compared to 10-15 years ago. It's all about quick time to market, various Electron-based "desktop app" maintaners have openly admitted it right here in HN (though not in this thread). Any technical disagreements were killed off with (1) we won't hire developers who are specialists in desktop development due to costs and (2) our app doesn't use that much resources, everybody has strong machines nowadays anyway.