Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?

Re:Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far? by ratww on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:03PM (#25805002)

My favourite development machine is still my 9 year old Air with 4GB. I mostly do frontend, a bit of Rails and some of GameDev with C++. It forces me to use lightweight tools (like Sublime) and it works like a charm.

One advantage of having it is that the company I work for has a very international and diverse user base, but gives us developers super modern machines. Some developers tend to overgineer and cause performance issues on slower computers. With an older laptop I can understand better how the app will be perceived by users.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far? by 1996 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:29PM (#25806132)

> Some developers tend to overgineer and cause performance issues on slower computers. With an older laptop I can understand better how the app will be perceived by users.

Exactly this. It forces me to optimize instead of taking shortcuts.

But the #1 effect is on focus: I can't have many tabs open and procrastinate.

8Gb is ideal for me. I'll see how it goes with 4Gb.

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