What’s implied here is that devs were supposed to optimize for user resources, not for developer convenience.
replyMaybe we can have AI rewrite those programs and optimize for low ram usage
replyThey were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.
replyCan you blame them? Users didn't care. Heck, developers didn't care - look at how popular vscode is.
replyHonestly, despite being Electron VSCode manages to outspeed every other editor on my machine (by qualitative metrics), even stuff like Zed (which manages to lag on stuff VSCode doesn’t despite performance being its main selling point)
replyRevealed preferences aside, every dev comment section for 10 years HAS been full of people loudly insulting Electron.
replyTime to bring back 32 bit OS, that way you only need 4GB RAM per computer!
reply640k ought to be enough for anybody. Sorry had to be said.
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