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by logicchains 2822 days ago
Anyone who wants an example of Chinese engineering at its best should try downloading the desktop Wechat client. Super smooth, fast and lightweight, currently just using 40mb in my task manager. Using it highlights how much software like Skype has lost its way. Or the Slack desktop client, which won't even start on my Linux laptop without 3gb of free ram, due to being packed so full with memory bloat and disregard for its users in the name of faster development time (or maybe management being too cheap to hire people capable of developing efficient GUIs in a lower-level language).