Considering it's only a problem when updating dependencies and how good and reliable the result is, it's totally worth it. Worst case in extremely big projects

Considering it's only a problem when updating dependencies and how good and reliable the result is, it's totally worth it. Worst case in extremely big projects you just add some swap and let it run for a while, the time required is still in the order of tens of minutes. Compare that to hours long c++ build times.