> Electron’s dream world would be one where every computer user had a luxurious amount of ram. But I think this world is fast approaching. Do we wait till then to begin taking advantage of a plentiful world, or do we start planning now?
While it's great to imagine this future world where everyone is running supercomputers, you ignore the overwhelming majority of potential users who aren't running "a 2016 MacBook with 16GB ram". For those not at the cutting edge, many Electron apps are painful to use.
To put it differently, not everyone replaces their computer every year. It may take a long time before everyone "catches up"
Yes, and they might be running "a 2011 MacBook with 4GM ram", like me :) I haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade, but apps like slack and atom are really trying to force it. Fortunately there are still apps that care about memory and performance (thank you, Sublime).
Not to mention the gravity-like tendency for apps to grow in memory requirements as machines grow in memory. It's disingenuous to pretend Slack will be snappy on a 16GB machine by the time everyone has it. Microsoft has run out the clock on that particular fallacy.
I have a 2016 16gb mbp and I cannot run two Ubuntu vms, chrome and Slack in 4 teams all at the same time. It is slow and even opens the OOM killer from time to time. And you can forget linking a large project when Slack is open, even with gold.
While it's great to imagine this future world where everyone is running supercomputers, you ignore the overwhelming majority of potential users who aren't running "a 2016 MacBook with 16GB ram". For those not at the cutting edge, many Electron apps are painful to use.
To put it differently, not everyone replaces their computer every year. It may take a long time before everyone "catches up"