I'm referring to the second point about memory that OP made. You know, having to allocate 700MB of memory in order to run an electron chat application.
This is more of a failing of the runtime that Electron uses and how it (ab)uses that runtime. Browsers were never meant to be run once per application. Sciter JS was supposed to be an Electron replacement but it didn't pan out. With some luck c-smile will stay motivated enough to finish it and once it gains traction there will be another attempt to opensource it.
Not everyone lives in the first world. Not everyone has a new computer.
It is this sort of hubris that likely explains my feeling that personal computing has regressed in many ways for the average individual over the recent years. I'm not talking about the hacker who can run surf+i3 on their cyberdeck, I'm talking about the person with an 8-year old computer bought on sale or a 4-year old smartphone.
RAM is only cheap because people don't waste it. If every application was written with Electron or every executable was a Java program (including CLI commands) you would cry and beg for more memory efficiency.
