I use a 2x12 core Xeon v2, 128GB RAM. I work full time on OS kernels, mainly FreeBSD. It helps a ton for building kernels, world, packages, and running lots o

I use a 2x12 core Xeon v2, 128GB RAM. I work full time on OS kernels, mainly FreeBSD. It helps a ton for building kernels, world, packages, and running lots of VMs. Thinking of doing the Talos II as the next step. Imagine doing web dev in a language where you refresh the webpage to see if it worked vs having to run a long build. The former is better, even though it's not really as good as careful reading of your changes, but there are many times throughout the day when you just want the compiler to bark at you to clear any stupid type or syntax errors. The faster your machine and more parallel the build, the closer you get to that web dev experience.