This is self-deception. While technically you are right, you don't actually have...

illuminati1911 on July 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desk...

This is self-deception. While technically you are right, you don't actually have full 8GB to allocate to JS bloat apps. After the OS and all the other necessary stuff what you will always have running in the background like browser etc. you'll be left with 4-6GB.