When I working on the back-end I don't have to worry THAT MUCH on performance. In fact, if it runs on my machine, then it definitely will run on 100 times faster server.
My servers are usually not so fast. Right now I am using 1CPU core with 1GB of RAM on 2.4GHz; In addition, the back-end is one of the software that need to be optimized to the last extent. Because the back-end is aimed to serve multiple users simultaneously. So, even if it is 100 times faster than your working computer, when there are 1000 (or 10K) clients connected, the performance matters.
Having a powerful development workstation allows us developers to accomplish our tasks faster. For example you can use powerful IDEs (like Intellij). Compiling code is also much faster.
If developers of InteliJ had used slower computers for development, this IDE would be much faster now. :D
My servers are usually not so fast. Right now I am using 1CPU core with 1GB of RAM on 2.4GHz; In addition, the back-end is one of the software that need to be optimized to the last extent. Because the back-end is aimed to serve multiple users simultaneously. So, even if it is 100 times faster than your working computer, when there are 1000 (or 10K) clients connected, the performance matters.
If developers of InteliJ had used slower computers for development, this IDE would be much faster now. :D
Reminds me of devc++.
This thing had such fast auto-completion like nothing really.