Comment by dkns

Here's what's been bugging me lately about electron apps. They often take disproportional amounts of ram compared to what they do/have to offer. Common response is that it's not an issue because ram is plentiful and even if my terminal takes 500 mb of ram that's not an issue because I have 8 gb or 16 or whatever. Yes, but if this trend continues soon we'll end up with electron based text editor, music player, terminal, 2 - 3 chat apps, git browser, etc. etc. That starts to quickly add up and I don't feel like buying more ram just because it's cheap. RAM is cheap but so is a trip to the zoo and given the choice I'd rather go to zoo than buy more ram.