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Not as mind-blowing as SublimeText leaking 3 solid GB of RAM after a few days on my Debian..

Its always the extensions. Not sublime itself. That has been my experience so far

Wut, I opened 12 files in 9MB back in the day on a 32MB device as nothing.

Right now, I'm editing all the files in a 3kLOC project in neovim, doing completion with an LSP host, in 14.8MB. Keep it going for a few days and you might rack up 40MB. People can keep creating lightweight editors all they like, but you really need to bring more to the table than that when vim already exists.

We used to be able to open 10 files at a time on 4MB systems back in the 90s.

(They weren't big files, of course, but still. Standards have slipped.)

Yes, those were the days...every once in a while, I visit https://kolibrios.org/en/screen to get nostalgic.

Indeed standards have slipped or better say have been sacrificed at the altar of "quantity over quality".

For a simple "Hello, World!" string message, nowadays you need how many MBs of RAM.

Madness, complete madness!