How many "great products and services" even need a lot of RAM, assuming that we can live without graphics-intensive games?

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TheDong 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some open source projects use Slack to communicate, which is a real ram hog. Github, especially for viewing large PR discussions, takes a huge amount of memory.

If someone with a low-memory laptop wants to get into coding, modern software-development-related services are incredible memory hogs.

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deadbabe 11 hours ago | parent [-]

IRC is far superior than Slack when it comes to RAM usage. Projects should just switch to that.

	▲	anthk 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or even Jabber/XMPP, which has video call and inline images support and it would run on machines a magnitude slower.

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rhdunn 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Image, video, and music editing. Developing, running, and debugging large applications.

	▲	Ekaros 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The last three sounds to me like self-inflicted issues. If applications weren't so large, wouldn't less resources be needed?