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Assuming PHP you just described "a text editor and remote servers"
by Kamshak 7y ago
Assuming PHP you just described "a text editor and remote servers"
- mekster 7y agoApparently PHPStorm and Photoshop aren't "text editors" one would imagine.
- jbeales 7y agoPhpStorm = Big, Java-based IDE. It's not some simple text editor. PHP Dev often means some sort of local server running too.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agobig complex IDEs are almost never compute bound. compilers are often compute bound (certainly on SSDs). web servers are almost never compute bound.
- innocenat 7y agoYou severely underestimate JetBrains IDE.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoany IDE that is compute bound should be thrown out, especially for a language that is never compiled.
- copperx 7y agoOne has to wonder about the carbon footprint of millions of developers running these monstrous IDEs.
- dionidium 7y agoYeah, but that's a lot of us. Obviously there are some programmers out there doing computation-bound work, but an awful lot of us aren't. If you're doing web stuff or making apps, then basically any computer manufactured in the last 5-8 years is going to be fine. I do iOS side work on a 2012 quad-core Mac Mini. It's totally fine. It's OK to geek out about hardware, if that's your thing. But it's not really necessary for most people -- even programmers.