On 09/23/2014 04:48 PM, Joakim wrote: > On Monday, 22 September 2014 at 13:23:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote: >> My guess is the average for developers is ~8GB. 2GB RAM is really not >> enough for pretty much anything these days - the browser alone easily >> chews 3-4GB on moderate use. > > You have to admit that this is ridiculous. I updated to the 64-bit > Chrome on Windows when it came out and it is a huge memory hog. Web > browsers have grown out of control.
It's well beyond rediculous. After I log into my graphical environment with everything started, ~200MB is used. Launch a browser, and suddenly ~3800MB is used. If it wasn't for everyone hailing the inner platform effect (usually seen as a bad thing) as the best thing since sliced bread, many laptops would probably not ship with 4GB standard. But if your parents want Facebook and Instagram, you better give them a pretty beefy computer. Oh... And the CPU requirements is pretty steep too - even my Lenovo T520 (Core i7) is really slow at browsing the web! Oh.. And did I forget? You have to run a dynamic programming language that pushes most mistakes easily caught at compile-time to runtime errors. I obviously don't think The Web™ has made the right choices. The amount of Javascript hype I see makes me quite ill. An OS? Really? In Javascript? Seriously?