There is competition, for example between Slack's electron app and their website, or between Sublime, Atom, and VS Code. It seems like the author of this post doesn't trust users to choose memory usage and battery life over other things.
I expect that's correct - they are sometimes less important to users than other things. Emacs is tiny now, but at one time it was considered a memory hog and people kept using it.
I expect that's correct - they are sometimes less important to users than other things. Emacs is tiny now, but at one time it was considered a memory hog and people kept using it.