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Applications these days have no respect for a computer's limited resources:

- Chat apps consume 0.5GB RAM (e.g. Messenger)
- IDEs take 5GB of space and consume 4+ GB of RAM (e.g. Rider)
- A VS Code for a tiny F# project eats 1 GB of RAM

And then there's #Emacs which consumes 200MB after 1 month...

I guess most people don't really care about this, as long as they have the resources needed, but it always bothers me.

Paco Garcia

@bbatsov don't forget web browsers that take hundreds of megs just to render a simple text based webpage...

@frangarc Yeah, browsers are probably the biggest offender. With Electron apps being the close second. :D