The funny thing is I paid about the same from my rig that people pay for a Macbook Pro. It is not really unaffordable and you get a great development machine.

The funny thing is I paid about the same from my rig that people pay for a Macbook Pro. It is not really unaffordable and you get a great development machine. Of course nowadays the combination of Emacs and rust-analyzer gives you a very fast and nice workflow. That and one terminal running cargo watch -s 'clear; cargo check --tests --color=always 2>&1 | head -40' works miracles.