[seieste]

My predictions

Sometime within the next 2 years, Microsoft will release Word3D, which will be a text editor written in Electron and which will consume 100MB of memory to edit a 1KB text file.

[cm2187]

And will reset your default application settings on every update to shove that monstrosity down your throat.

[askvictor]

Back in the 90s I used to make fun of emacs for being a text editor that took up 20MB of disk space.

[yunruse]

Ah yes, who can forget Eighteen Megabytes And Constant Swapping? IIRC it comes from the Lispy environment that lends it its scriptability. Memory is cheap nowadays so we can afford to be less suave and use the multi-purpose well-rounded duct tape that is Javascript

[juststeve]

consume_your_RAM_and_give_us_money.exe

[thomasqm]

VS code?