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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The year where a browser can easily eat up 10GB of RAM.

On my Mac mini with 8GB, just having Visual Studio Code open is enough to fill up the RAM. No other programs necessary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

8gb of RAM? What year is this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A lot of more budget devices still have 4 and 8 gigs. Not to mention all the older devices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah, but thats not an development environment (at least not an acceptable one for anything serious)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question (I am not a developer): if you don't use a bloated IDE, what do you need this much RAM for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have no idea what people are talking about. My M2 MacBook with 8 GB handles pretty much all programming I do on it (biggest thing I've worked on on it was probably a 500k line C++ project). And I do use CLion usually which is one of the big IDEs. I'd go for more disk space before more RAM honestly. (Sure, my main machine has 64 GB but that's because I run huge compilation jobs testing distro packages, games, VMs, and a bunch of other stuff on it sometimes in parallel and especially the compilation jobs can easily take up 40 GB sometimes but I'd say that is not a usual use case.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Your WORKstation is for working. Budget devices are not for working.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The new MacBook Pro Apple just released a few days ago comes with 8GB in the lower two tiers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A Mac mini with 8Gb of ram is sadly not an appropriate config for programming anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just use it for building and deploying to macOS/iOS. I don't want to spend four digit prices just for that (I'm a freelancer).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s 2024. 32GB is a min requirement. I roll with 128GB because it’s a couple hundred bucks to never have to worry about RAM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah well, I can see how you don't run into RAM issues with 128GBs of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly. If you’re a dev, you should too.