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> 10 year old machine with 1GB RAM is perfect No, a machine with 1GB RAM is not perfect. If you are a frontend developer coding in node. And if you are not, yo
by azangru 8y ago
> 10 year old machine with 1GB RAM is perfect
No, a machine with 1GB RAM is not perfect. If you are a frontend developer coding in node. And if you are not, you might need a browser for Stack Overflow; and you might need Docker or vagrant for virtualization.
And, you may also want an Electron-based editor, such as Atom or VS Code.
Even 4GB is hardly ideal. 8GB is probably where it starts getting comfortable.
- mythrwy 8y agoI propose we give every front end dev at _most_ 4GB RAM for awhile and see if web bloat stops inflating.
- azangru 8y agoThere are far better ways to address this particular problem. Introduce web performance budgets in frontend projects; test frontend projects on specific target devices on which you need them to perform well; perhaps create dedicated web performance teams that will work on the tooling and testing for better performance. Development machine does not need to have the constraints of a testing machine; it's counterproductive. In any case, "web bloat" is relative to the target users and target devices. It's one thing to target cheap Android phones in India; it's quite another to target laptops of a SF-based startup. In the second case, web bloat is negligible.
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago> In any case, "web bloat" is relative to the target users and target devices. What about, relative to how many resources should be required for whatever tasks the software needs to perform? Just because I have a lot of ram doesn't mean I want Slack to use it all. I'd rather give that space to the OS for file caching and such.
- eeZah7Ux 8y agoYes please! Very few companies do this type of dogfooding.