> An 8 gig stick of ram costs about thirty dollars. It doesn't make sense to run 4 these days.
It does not make sense if 4 Gb mean that you can only run a browser and Notepad.
If, however, you are a bit older and you remember the time that you had the choice between 4 MB and 8 MB and people were still able to do all their computer stuff, including internet, in a graphical environment, then you thoughts are more in the line of: what the fuck are these lazy and incompetent programmers doing these days? And this is coming from someone who earns a living as a developer.
There were a lot of hours spent and features unimplemented those days in want of RAM. Now we don't have to do that- we can do more, and we can do stuff way faster as developers.
If you spend a half hour over the entire life of your machine even considering RAM, you might as well double it for $30.
Using RAM is good. It's fast, it's cheap, and anybody with 8 gigs has it in abundance
May I ask what unimplemented features you're referring to? I think one of the biggest issues the older crowd has with Electron apps is not only that they eat up 500MBs of RAM, but also that they only have a tiny subset of the features contained in apps that ran fine with 500KBs.
It does not make sense if 4 Gb mean that you can only run a browser and Notepad.
If, however, you are a bit older and you remember the time that you had the choice between 4 MB and 8 MB and people were still able to do all their computer stuff, including internet, in a graphical environment, then you thoughts are more in the line of: what the fuck are these lazy and incompetent programmers doing these days? And this is coming from someone who earns a living as a developer.