I am really hoping the proliferation of 4GB RAM - limited devices like the Pinebook Pro (and this) will encourage people to develop things that are far more mem

I am really hoping the proliferation of 4GB RAM - limited devices like the Pinebook Pro (and this) will encourage people to develop things that are far more memory efficient, so eventually 4GB will be enough for anyone, even if they want to run Slack, for example. There is no technical reason whatsoever that a glorified IRC client should be taking up gigabytes of RAM. The same goes for many web services. I seem to recall reading my email on a device with 8MB RAM total in my childhood; why does Google need 2GB for my Gmail tabs?