not sure where the red herring came from. VS Code uses less system resources than a blank excel document for me. Opening up another tab in a browser can spawn another browser process, which is done for isolation.<p>Same example, 142MB is the footprint for VS Code. VLC is bigger.<p>Where is this &quot;extensive resource usage&quot; that people seem to be concerned about even apply to Electron? Metrics?<p>A similar paradigm would be to create a Chrome Packaged App, but you&#x27;re going to still have the same resource utilization as another browser tab.