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How many "great products and services" even need a lot of RAM, assuming that we can live without graphics-intensive games?

• TheDong 9mo ago
  Some open source projects use Slack to communicate, which is a real ram hog. Github, especially for viewing large PR discussions, takes a huge amount of memory. If someone with a low-memory laptop wants to get into coding, modern software-development-related services are incredible memory hogs.
  • deadbabe 9mo ago
    IRC is far superior than Slack when it comes to RAM usage. Projects should just switch to that.
    • anthk 9mo ago
      Or even Jabber/XMPP, which has video call and inline images support and it would run on machines a magnitude slower.
• rhdunn 9mo ago
  Image, video, and music editing. Developing, running, and debugging large applications.
  • Ekaros 9mo ago
    The last three sounds to me like self-inflicted issues. If applications weren't so large, wouldn't less resources be needed?