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I think the “devs must have the latest hardware” meme expired probably a decade ago. Mid-range hardware is more than adequate for most devs to develop on withou

• saagarjha 6y ago
  It's interesting, because developer tooling is subject to the very thing I mentioned too. The IDE I use the most often, Xcode, gets progressively worse to use on older hardware too because the engineers that work on it upgrade their computers to the latest as well. If your tooling has slower release cycles, your hardware can often hold out longer, but if you need to work with fast-moving tools you get to feel this pain yourself. It's really problematic because these policies have been around for quite a while now, so there are multiple levels of reasons pushing you towards the easy route of just buying faster hardware, which perpetuates the cycle even more.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Our Macs tend to be replaced in specific cycles, the same applies to the Windows laptops, regardless of what is hot in the market. If we happen to get a customer laptop from their IT for accessing their internal network instead of some cloud instance, you can bet it is most likely fitted with 8GB and a regular HDD. It is only on HN and Reddit bubbles that I get to see people using the very latest and greatest. Ah, and I was part of a project a couple of years ago, where teams focused on Windows machines and literally timeshared iMacs and the respective iDevices for testing their hybrid apps.