On a serious note, I think the insanity will stop when the operating systems will start shaming badly written applications and nudge users to get rid of them. It is in Apple/Microsoft interest, because users will blame their computers ("My Windows is getting slow...").
The phones already show the list of power hungry apps responsible for your battery life reduction, having this on a desktop would be nice too. If even a terminal needs 64 threads and 126MB of RAM now... looks like some wrist-slapping is in order...
That's a lot more threads than iTerm uses for me, but it's less memory. Typically my work computer (a 2015 15" MBP) tends to be bottlenecked on RAM, too. 16GB sadly is pretty much the minimum viable amount of RAM for me to do full stack development these days.
I've maxed out my 64GB a few times and have seriously weighed upgrading to 128GB. Running all the development environment on my localhost (where I'm the actual sysadmin) is really handy if your sysadmins are too busy to help you with their business side of things.
macOS already does present a list of apps that are using a lot of energy if you click on the battery indicator. I thought that Windows had a similar feature, but I'm not sure.
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On a serious note, I think the insanity will stop when the operating systems will start shaming badly written applications and nudge users to get rid of them. It is in Apple/Microsoft interest, because users will blame their computers ("My Windows is getting slow...").The phones already show the list of power hungry apps responsible for your battery life reduction, having this on a desktop would be nice too. If even a terminal needs 64 threads and 126MB of RAM now... looks like some wrist-slapping is in order...