• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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            1 year ago

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

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              1 year 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.)

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          1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year 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).

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      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.