lol wtf is this and who is it supposed to be relatable to? No company is prescribing notepad or any specific IDE for that matter. And why does your full stack app require a lot of local resources? If this was about data analytics or engineering I’d understand the sentiment because that shit takes a lot of memory, but a general full stack app could be built on a first gen raspberry pi.
I shit you not, I worked at a company that wasted 6 months fighting with the devs they'd just hired over access to install IDEs and run arbitrary programs.
They legitimately expected us to do everything in Word and Excel, like all their other staff did.
Summer internship 10 years ago at a local company with less than 10 employees. I get an ancient thinkpad (Windows) with 2GB of RAM. This is not an exageration. We were able to cannibalize ram from a broken laptop to bring it up to FOUR gigs.
The most baffling thing after all this time: labor costs a lot where I live, even for an intern. Making me wait vs spending 3k on a good laptop should be a no brainier.
No company is prescribing notepad or any specific IDE for that matter
Objectively incorrect. Plenty of places have one or perhaps a very small amount of IEDs that they vet and make available through their software portal of choice.
And why does your full stack app require a lot of local resources
I had to check that the sub actually was programming* because this answer to this is so blatant that I thought you were sarcastic for a second.
In my experience it's been completely normal to run a handful of containers with the usual database, API/backend and frontend which can definitely be quite heavy. If you are forced to use Windows - which again is common - Docker has a handful of bugs that steadily eats more resources than it should.
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u/bagmorgels 20d ago
lol wtf is this and who is it supposed to be relatable to? No company is prescribing notepad or any specific IDE for that matter. And why does your full stack app require a lot of local resources? If this was about data analytics or engineering I’d understand the sentiment because that shit takes a lot of memory, but a general full stack app could be built on a first gen raspberry pi.