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by nocman 2248 days ago
It's completely relevant. People run more than one application on their desktop computers.

Regardless of what many people say, RAM usage still matters. If every app takes a giant chunk of RAM just to get started ( which many do ) eventually that's going to bite you.

Yes, we do have a ton more resources to work with than we used to, but I'm afraid far too many developers have just stopped caring about it at all -- and that's a very bad thing.

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> It's completely relevant. People run more than one application on their desktop computers.

That's great, so that must mean you'll be happy to hear that right now I have two instances of vscodium open, each one running half a dozen plugins, and their total memory footprint is less than 300MB.

Do you have anything relevant to say regarding how much resources are used? Or are we supposed to keep debating if being able to run 40x instances of a text editor is not enough room to work with, or if whether having only 7.8GB of RAM free to run other programs is too restrictive?