Post by @chucker@norden.social

RE: https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/117611593394511682

I can comfortably develop on a 48 GiB RAM laptop. The 32 one I had before was still fine but reaching its limits. 2, though?

Likewise, the NuGet package cache alone would more than fill those 25 GB of storage.

I wouldn’t work in *such* a constrained environment. I’d simply quit. No thanks.

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st 2 days ago

Software quality would improve greatly if developers were forced to work on a device with a 10 year old CPU, 25G of storage, and 2GB of ram. The amount of resources necessary to do the simplest of operations is just bonkers. Not everyone has infinite disc space, and a never ending supply of RAM.

FFS.

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@mdhughes@appdot.net 7 min. ago

@chucker But that's what's great about Xcode & shit like that. You waste 50-75% of your CPU & RAM on the IDE, so now your fast dev machine feels like a real person's computer.

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@chucker@norden.social 2 hr. ago

“But the original Macintosh team shipped a system that ran on 128K!”

Yes, and by today’s standards, it sucked! It had no color (not even greyscale), cooperative multitasking came five years later, preemptive multitasking and memory protection came another twelve years later.

Not everything old needs to come back.

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@mdhughes@appdot.net 5 min. ago

@chucker In some ways it's not great, but I've done some emulator hacking on an SE equivalent, & MAN it's sweet. Also, they had these technologies called "outlined buttons", "scroll bars", & "resize boxes"? Long lost & should be brought back.