Performance
Post #7519, on Dec 6, 2025 in TG
RAM Shortage Could Force Developers to Actually Write Efficient Software
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A screenshot of a tweet from @gizmobly posted 4h ago on X (formerly Twitter). The tweet reads: 'If RAM becomes so rare / expensive that software enshittification and the impending crash of the industry reverses due to developers needing to learn about resource constraints and quality then I will start believing in a god'. The user's profile picture shows a person in a reflective/shiny outfit. The tweet expresses sardonic hope that hardware resource scarcity (specifically RAM shortages) might be the only force powerful enough to reverse the trend of declining software quality and bloat in the tech industry
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Plot twist: the RAM shortage just makes Electron apps swap to disk harder, and developers respond by requiring 64GB minimum in their package.json
If God can force developers to write normal code and he hasn't done it before, it can only mean one thing - he's been testing our faith all along. Comment deleted
God doesn't work like that. You eat as much RAM as you want, and if you suddenly face a blue screen or something... You pray for forgiveness, subscribe and put some money in the jar. Comment deleted
Anyway, >if Comment deleted
They will double down Comment deleted
If that actually happens, I will be more than surprised Comment deleted
Finally apps gonna be less memory heavy Comment deleted
One of my pipe dreams is having a real cross platform web shell that takes care of rendering of ui for all the electron apps without having to duplicate chorme engine in memory 10 times. But this is hard since gpu doesn't support easy preemption Comment deleted
If they finally fix the electron scroll bug I start believing in god. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/28795 Comment deleted
when young developers try to understand what "optimization" is, at this time, older developers: Comment deleted
Isn't optimization about dividing God classes into Services, Helpers and Repositories? 😉 Junior Dev here. /s Comment deleted
It's about hardcoding the fastest sine implementation is asm, while 99.(9)% of execution time is waiting queries from the database Comment deleted
Bro. Caching is a joke to you? Comment deleted
Finally the end of electron 😍😍😍 Comment deleted
won't happen, sadly won't happen Comment deleted
reminds me of the guy that was working in eefense industry and realized the company, while knowing the memory leak, just puts extra ram on fire control chip for the life time of missile, cause it's easier and cheaper than rewriting the code in an optimized way Comment deleted
that is how it is done, the motto: Performance can be bought Comment deleted