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I wonder if they increased their efforts after seeing VS Code (also a complex Electron app) run fast and memory-efficient.

Before VS Code everyone just accepted Electron's memory bloat, maybe slack even had plans to go fully native b/c no one thought it could be done properly.

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> memory-efficient.

Not how I'd describe a text editor that consumes 700MB+ of RAM at any given time.

Yes, because vs code is just a mere text editor.

Replace "text editor" with "IDE," and that 700mb figure doesn't seem so extravagant.

It does to those of use that remember upgrading to (I think) 128MB of RAM to run Visual C++ 6, it's not like a heap of new features have been added since.

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