Re:I Was Wrong About Offline
by falcolas on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:23PM
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FWIW, I write software for servers, not clients. But yeah, I understand what you're getting at.
That said, I'm fine with folks using top of the line computers for developing, just not for testing. Nothing will frustrate you more than attempting to use an IDE on a memory and CPU starved system with a spinning rust drive. Nothing prompts you to silly shortcuts more than having a minute plus code/build/test cycle.
But once the coding is done, pull out that netbook from 2012 and make it run fast on that platform.
That said, I'm fine with folks using top of the line computers for developing, just not for testing. Nothing will frustrate you more than attempting to use an IDE on a memory and CPU starved system with a spinning rust drive. Nothing prompts you to silly shortcuts more than having a minute plus code/build/test cycle.
But once the coding is done, pull out that netbook from 2012 and make it run fast on that platform.