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"When was the last time you even considered RAM use, when writing your own programs? Just copy that list and modify the copy; never worry about "is the original needed any longer?" And so on. Such economies suck time to find and implement and aren't useful until they're actually necessary, so nobody does them.

"nobody does that" times 20 years of RAM getting ever bigger, ever cheaper; and you get where we are today.

Once upon a time, emacs was considered a hog: "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". We had to invent whole new layers of indirection and waste to come up with the current VScode type efforts.

"the hunger of apps for RAM" will never be satisfied, just like there will never be no books for the printing presses to print: We'll find some use for keeping the machines thrashing no matter how silly. "