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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by m_fayer on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:38PM (#15588673)
Oh what a lovely cycle. Every dev knows 16gb is the new 8gb so sure, why not have every desktop app consist of 20 independent webview/node processes. Can't wait until 32gb is the new 16gb.

Eventually, when every single desktop app is like this, and we can no longer keep shoving more RAM into computers, we'll realise that the only way to manage such hogs is to pickle background apps to disk Android-style and to just have one foreground app in memory. And that's when we'll all realise we might as well switch to Chrome OS. Well played, web devs, Google says thanks.

Or maybe Electron is a conspiracy by someone heavily invested in RAM production?

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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by xwvvvvwx on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:17PM (#15589456)
32 is already the new 16.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by tedmiston on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:36AM (#15591301)
Too many devs are on MacBooks and Apple doesn't even offer a 32 GB option yet. It sounds like Intel will close the gap soon and we'll see it in the next year or two though. Maybe 32 will be the new 16 by then?
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by yellowapple on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:34PM (#15589586)
That's horrifying.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by xwvvvvwx on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:35PM (#15589594)
That's progress.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by flukus on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:34AM (#15591295)
That's regression. Despite having vastly more memory than 20 years ago I'm not getting anything more done with it.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by trashcan on Thursday November 02, 2017 @11:02AM (#15611011)
What OS were you using in 1997? I believe I was using Windows 95 then and was definitely getting a lot less done with it.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by revelation on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:52PM (#15589705)
RAM is harmless. Even the most inept developers would struggle to waste as much of it as Slack Desktop.

No, the real casualty in this cycle have been spinning rust, good old hard disks. Their performance was never great but a sure fire way to kill it and make sure it never recovers is to trigger a full fucking unthrottled index scan at every boot that inevitably finds nothing changed. Looking at you Dropbox.

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