Re:Apps Getting Worse
by MereInterest on Sunday August 08, 2021 @06:52PM
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I think there's a huge tragedy of the commons when it comes to RAM. I get all the arguments about unused RAM being wasted RAM, and that it is more effective to drop a cache at the last moment, just in case it would be used before then. But those arguments only apply if you have a single entity handling the allocations. Otherwise the program holding the memory has no idea that it should drop a cache to allow a different program to use the memory. If the single program is the OS, great. If there's a single large program using RAM such as a browser, then it's still workable but not so great. If you have more than one program each trying to eat 80% of the RAM available, then you're in a world of hurt.
And of course, every program thinks that it's the one and only important program running on the computer, which is how we get into the situation we're in.
Re:Apps Getting Worse
by userbinator on Sunday August 08, 2021 @10:36PM
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IM applications are the worst offenders --- they are often left in the background and only for notification purposes, yet we somehow end up with monstrosities like Slack and Teams which use more RAM when idle than an entire computer a decade ago.
I think the most infuriating thing is azure containers don’t really work with standard FTP clients like transmit
But as long as the product is “good enough “we will see this trend more as most consumers of apps care more about features than performance
> Microsoft has enough money and resources to make a real program, but it chooses to be lazy and cheap.
They made one of the best text editor/IDE and released it for free. I wouldn't call that being lazy and cheap.
Re:Apps Getting Worse
by reaperducer on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:37PM
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VSCode isn't a gift to developers. It's a marketing tool.
Why can't it be both? Microsoft has been doing great things recently, with VSCode, Typescript, C#. Of course maybe it's the first step of EEE. I'm personally worried about the VSCode/developing in containers that's closed source/Github/NPM acquisition, that sounds like they're preparing some kind of best of class developing experience (probably linked with Azure too) that will be proprieteray. But for now they remain well behaved, and everything until now is open source.
I only have two on my machine: VSCode, and Microsoft Azure Explorer. If I run them both at the same time, there's a 20% chance I'm going to have to reboot that day.
Microsoft has enough money and resources to make a real program, but it chooses to be lazy and cheap.