[Derbasti]

I have a Surface 3. It has enough memory for my web browser, but not much more. Atom is out of the question, Spotify grinds it to a halt, slack is a horrible experience.

But you know what works great? Emacs, a shell, Python, video players, bittorrent, ffmpeg. I. e. native apps.

Well, that sucks for me, right? I could just hop on my 64 GB, 32-thread desktop PC right? As a matter of fact, I could, because I am an entitled white western dude. But the rest of the world can't. I wonder how the Atom vs Emacs debate plays out in China or India or Africa.

[curtisblaine]

> As a matter of fact, I could, because I am an entitled white western dude. But the rest of the world can't. I wonder how the Atom vs Emacs debate plays out in China or India or Africa.

So there will be companies writing less demanding software for less developed countries that will reap all the market, audience and benefits, right?

This is similar to the diversity argument: "hiring a diverse team is beneficial! only staying diverse you can have innovation" is similar to "billions of people are stuck with slow hardware and ancient OSes - these are the markets of the future".

Guys, why don't you all form a diverse team, go capture the market of the future and become billionaries in the process while we keep on writing Electron apps? Sucks to be us, right?