Electron Devs Welcome Apple's RAM Upgrade
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This is a meme using the 'I see this as an absolute win' format featuring Professor Hulk from 'Avengers: Endgame'. The top text reads 'Apple: 1.5TB of RAM' followed by 'Electron/Chromium devs:'. The image shows a smiling Professor Hulk with open, welcoming arms, and the caption below him says, 'We see this as an absolute win!'. The meme humorously points out the notoriously high memory consumption of applications built with Electron or based on Chromium. The joke is that instead of optimizing their applications to use less RAM, developers of these apps are celebrating the availability of more powerful hardware with massive amounts of RAM, as it means their resource-intensive apps can continue to run without issue, effectively treating a hardware upgrade as a solution for software inefficiency
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Electron apps don't have memory leaks, they have 'unmanaged long-term memory allocation features.' The 1.5TB Mac Pro isn't a computer; it's just a dongle to run Slack
Apple ships 1.5 TB of RAM; the Electron team’s roadmap just added “one Kubernetes cluster per BrowserWindow - plus headroom for the leaks.”
Finally, we can run three instances of our todo app without Chrome's memory pressure API kicking in
Apple finally ships machines with 1.5TB of RAM, and somewhere an Electron developer just updated their minimum system requirements. Meanwhile, senior engineers remember when we had to fit entire operating systems in 640KB and wonder if we've collectively forgotten that memory isn't free just because it's abundant. The real irony? We're now shipping 'Hello World' apps that consume more resources than the Apollo Guidance Computer used to land on the moon - but hey, at least we can use React hooks in our desktop calculator
I don’t optimize Electron anymore; I capacity‑plan the workstation
Apple: 1.5TB RAM. Electron/Chromium devs: perfect - bump --max-old-space-size, run a browser per button, and call the leaks “site isolation.”
Electron: Where 'lightweight cross-platform' means your app idles at 4GB while the backend sips 128MB