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Re:Google Antigravity by throwaway2037 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:46PM (#45973824)
I never understand why developers spend so much time complaining about "bloat" in their IDEs. RAM is so incredibly cheap compared to 5/10/15/20 years ago, that the argument has lost steam for me. Each time I install a JetBrains IDE on a new PC, one of the first settings that I change is to increase the max memory footprint to 8GB of RAM.
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Re:Google Antigravity by Dylan16807 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:28PM (#45974230)
> RAM is so incredibly cheap compared to 5/10/15/20 years ago

Compared to 20 years ago that's true. But most of the improvement happened in the first few years of that range. With the recent price spikes RAM actually costs more today than 10 years ago. If we ignore spikes and buy when the cycle of memory prices is low, DDR3 in 2012 was not much more than the price DDR5 was sitting at for the last two years.

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Re:Google Antigravity by skydhash on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:04PM (#45974001)
I don’t really complain about bloat in IDEs. They have their uses. But VSCode feature set is a text editor and it’s really bloated for that.
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Re:Google Antigravity by Zardoz84 on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:14AM (#45978642)
I prefer my RAM to being use for fs cache or on other more useful stuff, instead of launching full lobotomized web browsers.
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Re:Google Antigravity by KronisLV on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:25PM (#45984643)
> I never understand why developers spend so much time complaining about "bloat" in their IDEs. RAM is so incredibly cheap compared to 5/10/15/20 years ago, that the argument has lost steam for me. Each time I install a JetBrains IDE on a new PC, one of the first settings that I change is to increase the max memory footprint to 8GB of RAM.

I had to do the opposite for some projects at work: when you open about 6-8 instances of the IDE (different projects, front end in WebStorm, back end in IntelliJ IDEA, DB in DataGrip sometimes) then it's easy to run out of RAM. Even without DataGrip, you can run into those issues when you need to run a bunch of services to debug some distributed issue.

Had that issue with 32 GB of RAM on work laptop, in part also cause the services themselves took between 512 MB and 2 GB of memory to run (thanks to Java and Spring/Boot).

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