Probably because their $3000 desktops are grinding to a crawl under these unwieldy stacks of cruft. The market might not care but that's only because most users are too naive to realize that spending hundreds to thousands of dollars a year upgrading their phones and laptops is neither necessary nor desirable. Eventually consumers in this space will gain more awareness and these wasteful software development practices will have to end.

1GB of RAM is anywhere from 25-50% of the RAM available on the average new (let alone used) consumer-grade laptop. For a chat app. And that's not even factoring in the OS overhead.

That's fucking bonkers. Objectively and scientifically fucking bonkers.

Because when you combine that with the silly MS overhead from useless processes because the team that controls your Win 10 environment insists on running Group Policy without a care.. then you notice that your machine is suddenly bogged down, when it's been running fine for the years you had total control of it! !!

Because a large percentage of HN commenters are programmers? Wasteful is wasteful

My computer is like a garden - treat it with respect or we can’t be friends.