| ▲ | throwaway2037 2 hours ago | |
I never understand why developers spend so much time complaining about "bloat" in their IDEs. RAM is so incredibly cheap compared to 5/10/15/20 years ago, that the argument has lost steam for me. Each time I install a JetBrains IDE on a new PC, one of the first settings that I change is to increase the max memory footprint to 8GB of RAM. | ||
| ▲ | Dylan16807 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> RAM is so incredibly cheap compared to 5/10/15/20 years ago Compared to 20 years ago that's true. But most of the improvement happened in the first few years of that range. With the recent price spikes RAM actually costs more today than 10 years ago. If we ignore spikes and buy when the cycle of memory prices is low, DDR3 in 2012 was not much more than the price DDR5 was sitting at for the last two years. | ||
| ▲ | skydhash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I don’t really complain about bloat in IDEs. They have their uses. But VSCode feature set is a text editor and it’s really bloated for that. | ||