Opening Xcode and a small to medium project targeting a physical device with its own RAM will be fine..no SSD killing. If you are not doing INCREMENTAL builds o

Opening Xcode and a small to medium project targeting a physical device with its own RAM will be fine..no SSD killing. If you are not doing INCREMENTAL builds or start flipping between apps, web tabs, streaming video and messaging while also Xcoding, the amazing thing is that it will work, but as you say, it will likely be hammering the SSD. I wouldn’t really recommend a dev buy 8GB if they can afford 16GB, but I wouldn’t really let them use only having 8GB as an excuse not to be able to make small to medium apps either, they just have to be more intelligent about managing the machine. (Xcode is I/O bound anyway.)