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wink | on: Users don't care about your tech stack
Look at every single discussion about Electron ;)

"It's a basic tool that sits hidden in my tray 99.9% of the time and it should not use 500MB of memory when it's not doing anything" is part of product quality.

elktown | parent | next
Only 500MB? Now you're being charitable.
marcosdumay | root | parent
Electron adds about 500MB to your memory requirements. If your software uses 2GB like Teams, the rest is on you.
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foldr | parent
Using 500MB of memory while not doing anything isn’t really a problem. If RAM is scarce then it will get paged out and used by another app that is doing something.
Borg3 | root | parent | next
Borg3 slaps foldr with a spinning rust.

And now more seriously ;) Swapping aint fun. Sure, if it needs to happen, its better that out of memory error or crash, but still. Its not excuse to baloon everything..

And here, is my memory stats, while writing reply:

Commit: 288.13M (1%); Free Memory: 15.43G (96%)

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bigstrat2003 | root | parent
I consider it a problem on my system and I will refuse to use your app if you disrespect my resources that way.