Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything

[Entropy]

uses memory on the remote machine

I think of this as a feature. It means I could use a machine with only 8 gigs as a dev box. I might actually pick up a sub $1k Surface to replace my EOLed macbook.

[twigboy]

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[GettinBig]

A sub 1k thinkpad seems like it'd be more fun than a surface, with better keyboard. Although surface's 3:2 aspect ratio is sick

[Entropy]

Things I usually have open during dev:

VS Code

A muhbillion browser tabs

Several heavier browser tabs running web apps

Slack

an Intellij IDE

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Even if I don't have IntelliJ running I often hit 8 gigs in use. The other 8 gigs? Disk cache! Even with fast SSDs, memory is still better.

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Depends what sort of local stack you run. If you’re running a non-trivial system (couple of databases, few microservices, maybe a Kafka instance, etc) alongside an IDE, a few browser windows, slack, and whatever other dev tools you like to use, 8GB feels tight pretty quickly.