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Whether ~$50-$100 ARM SBCs are powerful enough to make a dev machine for you depend on a lot of things. I wouldn't want one for my day job, but these would be
by clarry 6y ago
Whether ~$50-$100 ARM SBCs are powerful enough to make a dev machine for you depend on a lot of things. I wouldn't want one for my day job, but these would be sufficient for nearly all the coding I do on my free time.
It's in the same ballpark with Raspberry Pi 4. A bit more powerful.
- karatestomp 6y agoThings that make an Rpi4 + 4GB memory unsuitable as a development machine: needing to use more than one webshit thing at a time (heavier versions of gmail, Jira, Asana, Slack), needing to use a heavy Java IDE, or needing to run more than one or two very small VMs locally. If you do need those things but can offload them to remote VMs with X forwarding or VNC or whatever, then they're still fine. A Pi4 is downright spacious and plenty capable if you can avoid that junk. Which are also the same things making old 4GB laptops "too slow" for modern development, and even 8GB machines feel cramped.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoAnswer is don't load those. I use a Jetson nano with 4gb RAM. Vim and Firefox has been fine for writing go and python.