My company started using slack in 2015 and at that time I put in a bug report to slack that their desktop app was using more memory than my IDE on a 1M+LOC C++ project. I used to stop slack to compile…

The bug in Slack is that it uses Electron

Electron has been a blessing and a horrible thing at the same time.

It's always good to not slack when compiling.

Just to clarify for other readers, sword fighting while riding office chairs is not slacking.