On: Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

[Piskvorrr]

I also went from 8GB to 16GB recently (virtual machines are hungry); but I had gotten rid of Slack even before that. I mean, yes, it has round edges and goes ping and has all those cutesy animations - but 2GB of RAM for a glorified IRC client, excuse me, what exactly is it doing with billions of bytes worth of memory? ("Don't know, don't care" seems to be its developers' mantra)

[neutronicus → Piskvorrr]

The answer is JIT'ing JS.

For each of your Electron apps there is a little compiler chugging away.

[theandrewbailey → neutronicus]

Back in the day, we didn't have 2GB of RAM total, much less just for a compiler!