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Discussion on: What's the most wasteful software?

 
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Hacker Gaucho • Edited

VSCode plus a few tabs in firefox makes my laptop unresponsive frequently.

i recommend that on more modest machines use firefox as a browser and install a tab limiter. I also recommend that you exchange vscode by atom with zentabs and try to keep at least the amount of installed plugins.

is a waste when companies can easily invest in making better apps.

It is not enough to have money, you need to have a huge human capital qualified to create an open source project such as electron, atom or vscode in closed code.

if a large company like Github or Microsoft does not have or is unwilling to invest in human capital it needs to invest in languages and platforms that are more popular and accessible to the open source community.