Here's what's been bugging me lately about electron apps. They often take disproportional amounts of ram compared to what they do/have to offer. Common response is that it's not an issue because ram is plentiful and even if my terminal takes 500 mb of ram that's not an issue because I have 8 gb or 16 or whatever. Yes, but if this trend continues soon we'll end up with electron based text editor, music player, terminal, 2 - 3 chat apps, git browser, etc. etc. That starts to quickly add up and I don't feel like buying more ram just because it's cheap. RAM is cheap but so is a trip to the zoo and given the choice I'd rather go to zoo than buy more ram.

Right now I have 8 terminals open, some tabbed, some not, Sometimes I can have over twice as many. Many of them sit untouched on an Awesome workspace for days ready for me to come back to whenever I need them. This isn't a issue since their memory footprint is almost non-existent on pretty much any machine. Could I get away with this if I had to run an instance of Node + Chromium per terminal window? Is Black Screen one step ahead of me and it'll reuse an already running instance and open up another window? Do I want all my terminal instances to be managed by a single node process? Despite my reservations, still going to give this a go.

On a side note, anyone looking for a slightly more useful shell that is still very lightweight: check out fish: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell