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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by wgoodall01 on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:30PM (#20503753)
Replace "text editor" with "IDE," and that 700mb figure doesn't seem so extravagant.
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by flukus on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:37PM (#20504008)
It does to those of use that remember upgrading to (I think) 128MB of RAM to run Visual C++ 6, it's not like a heap of new features have been added since.
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