Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.

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    1 day ago

    Because what used to be a native application that used 200 mb of RAM now needs to be a web application built on top of a browser using 4 gb of RAM to do the exact same task.

    I will honest to God pick fucking Eclipse over VS Code every single day, because at least it runs natively.

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        9 hours ago

        The “enlightened” will tell you to use whatever you’re productive with…

        …but the real answer is “anything that isn’t written in Electron and has no telemetry”.