• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Chrome’s developer tools are better, and having two browsers open at the same time while programming is a strain on RAM resources, especially since Visual Studio Code needs to run in its own Chromium.

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      10 months ago

      Have you checked recently? Chrome devtools have been getting steadily worse the last few years, and Firefox’s keeps getting better.

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        10 months ago

        I haven’t seen anything getting worse, but I agree that the Firefox dev tools are now barely usable. They weren’t before.

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            10 months ago

            I honestly have no idea what this guy is talking about. I use dev tools in Firefox all the time and they’re pretty much the same as Chrome.

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              10 months ago

              Right, they’re great. They were a little janky in 2012 and before or something but yeah Chrome only enjoyed maybe 1-2 years even back then of being better

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        10 months ago

        Idk, twenty twenty-something. But Chromium with the YouTube homepage takes less RAM than GNOME Software and GNOME Shell, which either says I should move to Xfce or that Chromium has improved. Can’t speak on VS Code though since I run that in a distrobox and podman is broken for me rn.

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        10 months ago

        The year where a browser can easily eat up 10GB of RAM.

        On my Mac mini with 8GB, just having Visual Studio Code open is enough to fill up the RAM. No other programs necessary.

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            10 months ago

            A lot of more budget devices still have 4 and 8 gigs. Not to mention all the older devices.

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                10 months ago

                Genuine question (I am not a developer): if you don’t use a bloated IDE, what do you need this much RAM for?

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                  10 months ago

                  I have no idea what people are talking about. My M2 MacBook with 8 GB handles pretty much all programming I do on it (biggest thing I’ve worked on on it was probably a 500k line C++ project). And I do use CLion usually which is one of the big IDEs. I’d go for more disk space before more RAM honestly. (Sure, my main machine has 64 GB but that’s because I run huge compilation jobs testing distro packages, games, VMs, and a bunch of other stuff on it sometimes in parallel and especially the compilation jobs can easily take up 40 GB sometimes but I’d say that is not a usual use case.)

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              10 months ago

              Your WORKstation is for working. Budget devices are not for working.

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            10 months ago

            The new MacBook Pro Apple just released a few days ago comes with 8GB in the lower two tiers.

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            10 months ago

            I just use it for building and deploying to macOS/iOS. I don’t want to spend four digit prices just for that (I’m a freelancer).

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          It’s 2024. 32GB is a min requirement. I roll with 128GB because it’s a couple hundred bucks to never have to worry about RAM.