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Re:New MacBook Air by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:56PM (#22619395)
big complex IDEs are almost never compute bound.

compilers are often compute bound (certainly on SSDs).

web servers are almost never compute bound.

Re:New MacBook Air by innocenat on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:09PM (#22621286)
You severely underestimate JetBrains IDE.
Re:New MacBook Air by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:07PM (#22622435)
any IDE that is compute bound should be thrown out, especially for a language that is never compiled.
Re:New MacBook Air by copperx on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:34PM (#22622629)
One has to wonder about the carbon footprint of millions of developers running these monstrous IDEs.