I wish all web developers had laptops with only 512MB of RAM. Trying to tweet with both a windows VM, VScode and slack running at the same time is nigh impossible.
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And yet: running the full web versions of Twitter and Gmail in side-by-side Chrome browser tabs regularly chews up 512MB of RAM without opening anything for actually getting work done. (That's Twitter after staying open for a few hours, and Gmail just launched a moment ago.)pic.twitter.com/RcCppvzmDk
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Memory use is hugely complex. Good programs should trade space for speed to the extent that the space is free. I'm not claiming Chrome is a great memory footprint citizen, but we do try to make things fast when it's possible.
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... that can access file system and connect to debuggers and running in their own processes
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This would be viable if webassembly were farther along, but it isn't. VSCode cannot realistically run in a web browser until all of the necessary compiler tools it wants to use are working properly. Otherwise, it needs to use platform-specific browser plugins, which sounds gross.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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