> As someone who has worked supporting a commercial compiler, it never ceases to amaze me how companies will pay 6 figures per seat for development tools, and t

> As someone who has worked supporting a commercial compiler, it never ceases to amaze me how companies will pay 6 figures per seat for development tools, and then install them on a 5 year old machine that wasn't fit for the title "workstation" when it was brand new. Well, now you often have an overreaction to this problem, when web developers work on their Javascript frontends and Electron applications on the latest, beefiest Macbooks and blazing fast internet speeds and get completely out of touch with what their end users might be using. (This comment was written on an i9, 64gb RAM Macbook Pro provided by my employer).