> most people really don't care about 600 MB of RAM
There’s a difference between not caring that your computer is sluggish because of its programs, and not being able to tell the difference and demand less sluggish alternatives.
Normies put up with poor user experiences to the exact degree that software engineers deliver them.
That my UI should be significantly slower than my screen’s framerate is a false premise.
Go ask your parents if they're not pissed off that the laptop they bought for cheap is now struggling to run Peggle Deluxe and they don't understand why, while there's 7 Electron apps running in the background eating all that memory.
People don't care about 600MB. They care about how using their PC feels, and Electron is a massive contributor to it feeling like shit.
Our whole industry is a big joke technically. On the business side, though, we managed to get people used to downloading huge apps, that run slow, and are full of bugs. That's admittedly a big business achievement, but not the kind of world I want to live in.
Just like people learn to completely ignore popups (and are often not even aware that a popup appears, even an important one), they learn to accept bugs, overall bad apps, and the fact that they need a new smartphone every two years to keep up.
Doesn't mean at all they wouldn't enjoy better technology. They just do not have a choice.
