On 13/02/2021 10:38, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>
>> 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,

I've actually got a 8GB pi 4 standing by for something. Completely
forgot what.... (whoops)

  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.

True. Think though the safest minimum now is to have some sort of source
control system while ye are hacking, or continuous backup and some 'order'

In the early days I didn't have that, and lived (in the "dev" land of MS
Access) with many backups to removable media. Zip 100 disks were my
mainstay for going off-network, wasn't posh enough then for getting down
with MS Visual SourceSafe.

-&-

I recently abandoned running VScode on a development machine that had
2GB available for the process. Slow, like molasses ...

The project was coding in PHP for a remote application server that would
be eventually a documentation search engine (Apache Solr).

Then when I found that the Debian app server had some spare memory doing
nothing, I hosted VScode over there as well and neatly exported X11
window "frames" back to the dev machine, which to all purposes looked
perfectly integrated into its Debian desktop.

Even better, I can host those X11 windows over VPN to other desktops
remote, like them in the pre-covid office which I badly miss these days ...

But that was life before I found Theia, now I just use a browser.

--
Adrian C

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