Comment by unregistereddev
2 years ago
> I know others do but for reasons that go beyond practical. For those that have things to get done, I suspect they think like I do.
Please don't pass judgement on my preferences or whether they are practical. IntelliJ uses multiple GB of ram. Teams uses most of a gig. My browser uses a couple gigs. Docker containers eat a lot of it. When I am multitasking and everything is a memory hog, I'm forced to choose between using lighter-weight tooling and continually opening and closing apps. Using lighter-weight tooling is the practical choice.
You skipped over "unless it is a memory hog". When an app uses multiple gigs, it's a memory hog :-)