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[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

FF dev tools haven't been shitty for like more than 10 years

[-] webhead@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I honestly have no idea what this guy is talking about. I use dev tools in Firefox all the time and they're pretty much the same as Chrome.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Right, they're great. They were a little janky in 2012 and before or something but yeah Chrome only enjoyed maybe 1-2 years even back then of being better

[-] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 12 points 2 years ago

... strain on RAM resources? What year is it?

[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I just use it for building and deploying to macOS/iOS. I don't want to spend four digit prices just for that (I'm a freelancer).

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] anlumo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah well, I can see how you don't run into RAM issues with 128GBs of it.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly. If you’re a dev, you should too.

[-] danielf@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

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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