• hallettj@leminal.space
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      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