On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:23:03 +0000
Adrian Caspersz  wrote:

> On 13/02/2021 09:57, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:49:33 +0000
> > Joe  wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, I wondered why anyone would actually write code on an RPi. Anyone
> >> who really wants to use VS rather than, say, emacs, will surely want to
> >> use the real thing on its native Windows, and cross-compile.
> >> The Pi4 is now fairly powerful, but that's in comparison to phones and
> >> earlier Pis, not compared to a recent workstation or expensive laptop.
> >
> >  Compared to most of the machines I've developed software on the
> > Pi4 is a supercomputer! It makes the finest workstation ever produced
> > by Sun, Apollo or even SGI look like a toy. It is a sad testimony to
> > bloat that you find it inadequate to run an IDE.
> >
>
> VSCode, I would not run on a slow Pi with limited memory.
> Unless it's a small project.

 You can get 8GB on a Pi4, if that's not enough then it's a very sad
testimonial to bloat - some of the workstations we all used to lust after
had as much as a thousandth of that much memory.

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