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> A chat client should not be taking over 1GB of RAM Why do you care so much about RAM usage? All this concern over RAM is completely missing the picture here
by qudat 9y ago
> A chat client should not be taking over 1GB of RAM
Why do you care so much about RAM usage? All this concern over RAM is completely missing the picture here.
Every conversation about slack or electron people complain about RAM usage. The market could not give two shits about RAM usage so why does everyone on HN complain about it?
- sRabbit 9y agoBecause when you combine that with the silly MS overhead from useless processes because the team that controls your Win 10 environment insists on running Group Policy without a care.. then you notice that your machine is suddenly bogged down, when it's been running fine for the years you had total control of it! !!
- astronautjones 9y agoBecause a large percentage of HN commenters are programmers? Wasteful is wasteful
- c22 9y agoProbably because their $3000 desktops are grinding to a crawl under these unwieldy stacks of cruft. The market might not care but that's only because most users are too naive to realize that spending hundreds to thousands of dollars a year upgrading their phones and laptops is neither necessary nor desirable. Eventually consumers in this space will gain more awareness and these wasteful software development practices will have to end.
- yellowapple 9y ago1GB of RAM is anywhere from 25-50% of the RAM available on the average new (let alone used) consumer-grade laptop. For a chat app. And that's not even factoring in the OS overhead. That's fucking bonkers. Objectively and scientifically fucking bonkers.
- lewisinc 9y agoMy computer is like a garden - treat it with respect or we can’t be friends.