[deepthaw]

I’m freaking out the equivalent of mutt and irc require more than 8GB of RAM to run simultaneously.

What are modern operating systems and applications doing?

[astrange]

You can post images in Slack and use text formatting. Those are things that use memory.

[abujazar]

Sloppy memory management is what uses memory. But those apps are in a class of their own, along with Electron apps.

[astrange]

Slack is an Electron app.

[jshen]

Gifs. I'm only half joking.