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by nemothekid 3169 days ago
>I doubt anyone could notice a difference in real world performance between 8GB and 16GB.

Just having Slack and Chrome open at the same time causes my "Memory Pressure" graph on OSX to turn yellow on my 8GB RAM MBP.

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Electron apps!
"Badly written Electron apps!" - FTFY
Are there any other kind? At least thanks to electron apps we still have a need for Moore’s law.
Visual Studio Code seems like a good Electron app, but I've never checked its memory usage. The point is it's possible to create one though.