[melling]

However, all those people who complained that the Atom editor took too much memory are about to experience a new world when they buy their next computer.

I used Emacs back when people joked “Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping”

[imtringued]

To be fair. Electron bloat doesn't grow with application size. Only incompetence does. By using electron you are basically forcing your application to need around 200-300MB of RAM no matter how trivial it is, but that's all there is to it. Poor application performance has more to do with bad application development. Nothing prevents you from e.g. building Atom in a way that lets you view files bigger than 2MB with good performance or building a Slack client that doesn't leak memory. I can run lots of tabs in Firefox with good performance but if each tab was using its own browser instance I would run out of memory very quickly.