alt Hacker NewsHow many "great products and services" even need a lot of RAM, assuming that we can live without graphics-intensive games?
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rhdunn • today at 8:12 AM
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Some open source projects use Slack to communicate, which is a real ram hog. Github, especially for viewing large PR discussions, takes a huge amount of memory.
If someone with a low-memory laptop wants to get into coding, modern software-development-related services are incredible memory hogs.