Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
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That’s great, but yours is not the universal experience since different tasks have different RAM requirements, even within the realm of programming. I had RAM shortages when I was running the Haskell LSP server and compiler at the same time on a largish project. Haskell’s type checker does a lot more than other mainstream languages’ which is how it delivers such strong correctness guarantees. You trade RAM for scrutiny. Then the LSP server has to be fast so it has to do a lot of caching, and you get an additional trade of yet more RAM for speed.
I work on a codebase larger than the linux kernel and firefox combined and still don’t come remotely close to running out of memory on my laptop
That’s great, but yours is not the universal experience since different tasks have different RAM requirements, even within the realm of programming. I had RAM shortages when I was running the Haskell LSP server and compiler at the same time on a largish project. Haskell’s type checker does a lot more than other mainstream languages’ which is how it delivers such strong correctness guarantees. You trade RAM for scrutiny. Then the LSP server has to be fast so it has to do a lot of caching, and you get an additional trade of yet more RAM for speed.
Sure, if you’re in very specific workflows, but with how cheap memory is, zram, etc it’s hardly a problem anymore for the everyday user
Yes, but some of us aren’t the everyday user.