Why are we still building 200MB desktop apps for simple tasks?

I’ve been obsessed with performance lately. It feels like every new developer tool is built on Electron, eating up 500MB+ of RAM just to stay open.

I’ve been experimenting with Tauri and Rust to build a PostgreSQL client (PgNative), and the results are wild: the binary is under 10MB and it idles at ~40MB of RAM.