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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by winrid on Sunday December 15, 2019 @10:25PM (#21800591)
That's fine, because it's an IDE and a new dev machine tends to have more than 16gb of ram.
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by FpUser on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:26AM (#21801347)
No it is not fine. The only impression I get from glorified notepads consuming gigabytes of RAM is the ever increasing desire to send them to /dev/null where they belong. My opinion of course
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Re:JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised by ncmncm on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:40AM (#21801032)
Some machines, and some people, have other uses for RAM than the text editor.
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