[Can_Not]

I get what you're saying, but we already know that electron (specifically embedding a whole browser with DOM) is the culprit. There are some native UI toolkits with bindings available for NodeJS, if slack was refactored to replace electron with one, it would probably peak at 2x as much RAM than HexChat rather than averaging 10x to 100x.

[roryisok]

100x now? You're saying there are electron apps in the wild using 10GB of memory? I was trying to argue that the 10x claim was an exaggeration but you've just leapfrogged that.