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Anon prefers Frameworks over Thinkpads (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/greentext@lemmy.ml

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[–] Phen 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I work with typescript on a very large codebase. If I have the code editor open and the run a typecheck at the same time, plus some electron apps and Spotify playing, it can easily fill my 32GB of ram, so 64 would be the next cool number to not have to worry about ram ever.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 14 points 4 months ago

sighs deeply

I love modern software development. "What are you doing with that 32GB of RAM?" "Editing a 6KB text file"

[–] ky56@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck Electron. I hate that current trend. I like my long battery life and being able to run more than 3 applications on my MacBook Pro.

I will always use the example of how I subscribed to Spotify for a couple months back in 2015 and realized that the app constantly sat at the top of the Using Significant Energy list on my mac and was the reason the fan was so loud. I switched away to Apple Music for that sole reason. iTunes by comparison was very power efficient. It plays music for gods sake. How can you fail at playing music that badly.

[–] Phen 3 points 4 months ago

For some reason Spotify is even worse than the average electron app. Back when I still had only 16GB of ram (and worked on this same project), running out of ram would cause some random app to close. If I had Spotify open, it would freeze the whole system instead.

[–] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

You had me at typescript.