alt Hacker NewsWe have all of this running on a 16 MHz machine, yet on todays computers with 32GB RAM we have highly memory intensive desktop apps that use java and even electron.
Even a text editor today written in javascript using Electron will take 1GB+ without considering the user could open multiple documents which can increase the RAM usage.
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Where I live there is plentiful water. A drought essentially never occurs. I will never have to worry about concerning myself with whether I take a 5 minute or 15 minute shower. You can imagine then, that people that live here generally don't worry about water usage as you might in a severe desert environment where water is a scarce resource.
And that's why so many applications today are giant chonks of resource waste. For a long time now we've had it to spare.
Disregarding the moral debate about resource wasting of course. That's a different discussion. The why is: we have had the resources to burn, so they do. Resource usage is as tight as it has to be very generally speaking.
I banned any Electron turd in my machine, amd64, 8GB, Pentium Silver N5030. I am even trying a VS Code clone in Rust+Tauri as my IDE for Rust programming. It's semi-Electron, but far lighter.