But advanced development machines of today are the entry level computers of tomorrow.
And therein lies the problem. When tomorrow actually rolls around, you think the application's resource needs will have been frozen in the past? This seems like a slightly disingenuous argument. If we know one thing about software applications, it is that they will continue to require more and more resources at time goes by.
Don't get me wrong: I use atom sometimes; in fact, it's my tool of choice for writing ReStructuredText (the pandoc plugin is very nice). But it is a resource hog: it takes up close to 1/2 gig on disk, uses a lot of memory, and relatively frequently spins our of control, necessitating a restart to get my CPU back.
I run on a 16 gig high-end laptop too, and it's doable, but it's bit a bloated.
Agreed. I especially appreciate you addressing the point about software resource usage increasing over time. Its target is an old hat argument, and a strawman: just because you have a machine with 16GB of RAM doesn't somehow mean that running programs that consume prodigious resources is justified.
It's more than disingenuous: it's brain-dead. It's an attitude that leads to software obesity, where a chat client (Slack) now needs 2GB of my 8GB of memory all for itself. And no, "Just upgrade your machine" is not a valid argument in defence of software bloat.
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And therein lies the problem. When tomorrow actually rolls around, you think the application's resource needs will have been frozen in the past? This seems like a slightly disingenuous argument. If we know one thing about software applications, it is that they will continue to require more and more resources at time goes by.
Don't get me wrong: I use atom sometimes; in fact, it's my tool of choice for writing ReStructuredText (the pandoc plugin is very nice). But it is a resource hog: it takes up close to 1/2 gig on disk, uses a lot of memory, and relatively frequently spins our of control, necessitating a restart to get my CPU back.
I run on a 16 gig high-end laptop too, and it's doable, but it's bit a bloated.
Agreed. I especially appreciate you addressing the point about software resource usage increasing over time. Its target is an old hat argument, and a strawman: just because you have a machine with 16GB of RAM doesn't somehow mean that running programs that consume prodigious resources is justified.
It's more than disingenuous: it's brain-dead. It's an attitude that leads to software obesity, where a chat client (Slack) now needs 2GB of my 8GB of memory all for itself. And no, "Just upgrade your machine" is not a valid argument in defence of software bloat.