> Even if electron uses say 500% more resources than vim, why in the world would that matter beyond personal irritation for anyone making 6 figs doing software

> Even if electron uses say 500% more resources than vim, why in the world would that matter beyond personal irritation for anyone making 6 figs doing software development? It would cost me several thousand dollars for a laptop with enough storage to make me happy, or I could get one with a hard disk from dell for under a thousand, or stick with an older machine for nothing. The difference goes into my home loan for me, for others it goes into a number of other things, from hobbies to investments. Just because you are making good money doesn't mean you should waste it on top of the line everything. It also puts you much more in touch with your users. MS used to enforce the concept of dogfooding but it seems they only do this on top of the line surface pros these days. At least that's the only reason I can think of that allowed windows 10 to get out the door in such a broken state. If they'd had my cheap dell they surely would have noticed the multiple seconds that it can take for the start menu to load with a spinning disk in the mix. > If the tool is good and doesn't touch your limits why does it matter if it's as slim as a demoscene release or as hungry as a browser tab? Yes, the bloated one will slow down the rest of my system, we might have multiple GB available but they are still competing over other extremely finite resources like processor cache, disk buffers, etc.