[mdhughes]

Slack is a poorly-written Electron app, and unfortunately it's the poster child for it.

Discord does more with a fraction of the resources, and is also Electron. Atom is a giant editor framework, and is still less heavy than Slack in normal use.

Electron can run quite reasonably when you aren't an idiot/under complex enterprise requirements which probably explains Slack's load.

[nv-vn]

Discord uses minimum 140mb of RAM when idle on my machine. VS Code is currently idling at 330mb for me (2 files open), and it's a fork of Atom that allegedly performs better.

[pitaj]

VS Code isn't a fork of Atom.

[nv-vn]

Fair, though it is praised as being efficient for an Electron app