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What's next, in 2027 will they release laptops with 4GB RAM? Are we going backwards?

• topaz0 4mo ago
  Let's hope software gets enough less bloated to make that workable.
  • tracker1 4mo ago
    Maybe... While less than perfect, I think even moving to shared browser runtimes like Tauri and similar are a boost over Electron. Not to mention shifting backend work to Rust over JS/TS. There's a lot of performance on the table to gain without even dramatically changing most of the application UI/UX.
    • argee 4mo ago
      That’s a marketing myth. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889 https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889
      • tracker1 4mo ago
        Not so much a myth as understanding that shared libraries only really benefit resource use at runtime with multiple apps using them. Which depends on the apps you use.
• dijit 4mo ago
  To be honest, I am currently living with major Schadenfreude regarding ram costs. For literally years, SV companies have had a "ship fast, fuck the users" mentality when it comes to resource usage, as if software is written more often than it's run. Finally having some constrained supply of memory will force people to actually build software that can be reasonably used on 5 year old hardware (which would otherwise be perfectly servicable). Slack from 2015 doesn't meaningfully add anything over Slack from 2025 yet I need 3x the RAM to run it. Teams is worse somehow.