Programmer Number Influence Memory Consuption

I've noticed a strong correlation between the number of programmers developing a program and that program's memory consumption. If company has 10 programmers, then its product would take 50 megabytes RAM, if it has 100 employees that would be 500 Mb RAM. For example, Mozilla has more than 1000 employees, and Firefox requires several megabytes RAM. Dillo has just a few developers and its memory consumption is below 50 Mb. Same appears to be true for operating systems: early Windows NT has a small development team, which appeared to have very informal development practices (judging from a lot of swear words in comments), so Windows NT required just few megabytes to run, while modern Windows 10 requires gigabytes.

I think it has less to do with the number of developers and more to do with the complexity of the software and also what tools they’re using. I can make a “native” wrapper for a web app and it will use just as much resources as a full-blown browser because that’s exactly what it is when you convert a web app into a pseudo-desktop client. And it would use tons of resources even though I am only one person.

Then again, if we cared only about efficiency, everything would be written in Assembly and no one would use higher-level languages. But the problem with lower level languages is that abstraction really lets you concentrate on issues more closely related to your app’s usage and less on shit like memory management and registers and JIT and race conditions and other hardware shit like that.