What Else Programming Related Can Convert You Into Believer

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What Else Programming Related Can Convert You Into Believer

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Imagine RAM getting so scarce and pricey that devs actually have to *gasp* optimize their code and think about memory management. No more spinning up 47 Chrome tabs with 8GB each. No more Electron apps eating RAM like it's an all-you-can-eat buffet. Suddenly everyone's writing efficient code, profiling memory leaks, and actually caring about performance.

The idea that a hardware shortage could force an entire generation of developers to rediscover what "resource constraints" means is so absurdly dystopian yet plausible that it might actually restore faith in divine intervention. Because let's be real—nothing short of a biblical RAM apocalypse is getting modern devs to stop treating memory like it's infinite.

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