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Discussion on: Your powerful dev computer is your weakness.

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Tony Orozco

...the programmers improve their software only until it works acceptably fast on their own computer.

Dude, I'm with you on almost everything, a lot of people on my team when on UAT or replicating bugs always keep it coming with the old "It works on my machine", but how could you get a full dev environment (IDEs and other tools) work on a machine like that? how to test with a Chrome windows with devtools open? You will be out of memory in a glance.

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johnfound • Edited

I am using Chromium with devtools open and actually it works pretty good with 4GB or RAM.

As I already said - we are the experts. We need to be able to setup our development tools to work properly with every computer.

If the IDE needs too much resources, we have to press the IDE developers to make it less resource hungry. After all, we can create our own IDEs and stop using bloated software. There was powerful IDEs when the computers was 200MHz. The modern IDEs are not more powerful. They are simply slower.