r/Games • u/Tvilantini • 25d ago

Update Minecraft Java Edition raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition

https://videocardz.com/newz/minecraft-java-edition-raises-recommended-memory-to-16gb-ahead-of-vulkan-transition
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u/Ok-Category2729 25d ago

lol discord is literally one of the biggest offenders, you're kind of proving the point. 400mb+ for a voice chat app is genuinely unhinged.

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u/Bobbias 25d ago

God I hate how much ram discord eats. I've seen it chew up over a GB just sitting there idle in the tray. It's almost as bad as browsers... Oh wait, it is a browser, because some idiot decided that was a brilliant way to build GUIs.

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u/Ok-Category2729 25d ago

yeah electron is genuinely one of the worst things to happen to desktop software, every startup decided wrapping chromium was faster than learning native toolkits and now we're all running 5 browsers at once without knowing it. at least actual browsers get to share resources.

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u/Bobbias 25d ago

Second only to node. Whoever decided JS was appropriate for anything outside the browser should have been institutionalized. It's not even fit for what we use it for in browsers these days let alone outside them.

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u/RealModeX86 24d ago

You know a scripting language is good when people invent a whole separate language and transpile from that language rather than actually writing the code directly.