Does anyone here feel kind of trapped by their IDE now?
PHPStorm + Laravel Idea + the laravel-ide-helper package provides such a great PHP/Laravel development experience that I haven't been able to replicate in VS Code or Sublime. But chowing as much RAM as it does, it feels sluggish. Or at least, not as snappy as the alternatives. But I just haven't been able to find a middle ground with the lighter alternatives.
Running the IDE as a thin client with Jetbrains Gateway sounds like a decent solution, if your backend server is close enough for latency to feel okay. From a ~4GB PHPStorm usage, PHPStorm-via-Gateway on GitPod was 1.2GB max.
At the lower tier with the 8GB RAM, it's the most affordable device that will outlast power cuts that are frequent where I am - cheaper than getting a backup power solution. Getting more RAM is a ridiculous cash grab by Apple.
It's a rock and a hard place.
>4GB RAM is very little usage for advanced IDE
Java is awful with RAM in general. Decent text editor plugin setups can get close to the Jetbrains suite for what I do, but it's just a few small UX & plugin papercuts that make the difference. And I heavily doubt that those tools I prefer are that heavy compared to other editors.
8 GB RAM is very little. It will limit you as a developer, you will never get into containers, virtualization, AI...
If you are in Cape Town, get Linux laptop or minipc with external monitor. It all takes 19 volts, and you can power it from a car battery with simple voltage regulator. I have 8 core Ryzen with 4 TB SSD and 64GB RAM, it was less than 1000 USD.
M1 is nice, but has several limits. If it gets broken, it will be very difficult to service in South Africa...
PHPStorm + Laravel Idea + the laravel-ide-helper package provides such a great PHP/Laravel development experience that I haven't been able to replicate in VS Code or Sublime. But chowing as much RAM as it does, it feels sluggish. Or at least, not as snappy as the alternatives. But I just haven't been able to find a middle ground with the lighter alternatives.
Running the IDE as a thin client with Jetbrains Gateway sounds like a decent solution, if your backend server is close enough for latency to feel okay. From a ~4GB PHPStorm usage, PHPStorm-via-Gateway on GitPod was 1.2GB max.