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As a statement I spent almost the cost of a new car for being able to afford these kind of Electron apps. I greatly dislike Electron, but since almost everyone
by ivanmontillam 5y ago
As a statement I spent almost the cost of a new car for being able to afford these kind of Electron apps.
I greatly dislike Electron, but since almost everyone is forcing that on us, I, as a protestor, got top-of the line hardware.
I got 128 Gb of RAM, i9-9880H, SSD NVME2, and a Quadro RTX 4000 8Gb, on a mobile workstation.
Let's see how much time left until Electron apps catch up in bloat.
- testesttest 5y agoA long time. You just have to stay ahead of the Mac as that seems to be what all the heavy electron apps are developed on these days. My problem has always been smart phones because I refuse to drop $500+ dollars every 2 years as apps get hungrier
- schmorptron 5y agoYep. 6 GB of ram on a phone should be plenty for anything you can throw at it, but even that seems to be a lower midrange spec today.
- seanp2k2 5y agoNew iPad has up to 16GB and I wouldn’t be terribly shocked to see an M1 or similar in the next iPhone pro maxx.
- bruce343434 5y agoThat ridiculous purchase is fully on you, my friend. You would have been absolutely more than fine with 16GB, or even 32GB if you're scared. But given that quadro, I feel like this wasn't at all a protest, but rather you do some sort of resource heavy work such as 3d simulations or rendering. Yes, these pursuits have always been resource intensive. No, it's not the fault of electron.
- ivanmontillam 5y agoI don't regret a single cent of it. Nope, I don't do anything specialized, other than running some virtual machines while debugging and CI/CD pipelines. I've never exceeded 24 Gb of RAM in usage. At some point, I would like to run an small cloud infraestructure on this thing.
- hedora 5y agoMy 32GB, 2018 vintage work laptop is reporting 27 GB used, 4.13 cached, and 3.9GB swapped out. I have two web browsers, VS code (remote mode only), and slack open. About 4GB is being used by corporate crapware. I use Firefox as a json viewer, so it’s using 0.5GB. Emacs is using 50MB and my imap client is using 260MB Various UIs frequently hang waiting for swap. 32 GB is not enough, even though I’m using it like a dumb terminal.
- bzzzt 5y agoI guess you're using Linux? Memory management for desktop applications is really sub-par compared to macOS or even Windows. My 16Gb mac has zero problems with a comparable workload.