I do heavy dev work on an 8GB M1 Mac. Like, dozens of Chrome tabs, multiple IDEs, Notion, Slack, etc. Works great. MacOS does a good job at compressing memory a

I do heavy dev work on an 8GB M1 Mac. Like, dozens of Chrome tabs, multiple IDEs, Notion, Slack, etc. Works great. MacOS does a good job at compressing memory and using swap. The SSD on an M1 Mac is basically DDR2 speed, so even if you're mostly running on swap programs still execute fast enough.