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Chrome’s developer tools are better, and having two browsers open at the same time while programming is a strain on RAM resources, especially since Visual Studio Code needs to run in its own Chromium.

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… strain on RAM resources? What year is it?

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The year where a browser can easily eat up 10GB of RAM.

On my Mac mini with 8GB, just having Visual Studio Code open is enough to fill up the RAM. No other programs necessary.

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It’s 2024. 32GB is a min requirement. I roll with 128GB because it’s a couple hundred bucks to never have to worry about RAM.

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A Mac mini with 8Gb of ram is sadly not an appropriate config for programming anymore.

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8gb of RAM? What year is this?

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Idk, twenty twenty-something. But Chromium with the YouTube homepage takes less RAM than GNOME Software and GNOME Shell, which either says I should move to Xfce or that Chromium has improved. Can’t speak on VS Code though since I run that in a distrobox and podman is broken for me rn.

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Have you checked recently? Chrome devtools have been getting steadily worse the last few years, and Firefox’s keeps getting better.

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I haven’t seen anything getting worse, but I agree that the Firefox dev tools are now barely usable. They weren’t before.

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