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by dukedylan 2724 days ago
Are we really worried about memory usage anymore? I mean, I am using a laptop that has 16GB of DDR4 RAM, what's 100-200MB of memory usage going to do?
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Yes.

Why on earth would you rather something that takes up 100-200 MB over something that uses less than 5 MB (my biggest memory hog putty on Windows)

With that mindset, your 16 GB of RAM will go away after a few programs, because the devs weren't worried about memory usage. That is just the wrong mindset to have as a developer.

Apps like this are making things needlessly complicated, just for the sake of complicating.