On the other hand, development tools simply require a lot of resources: a debug build is always going to be more demanding than a production build, and a full recompilation of something like Firefox is never going to be fast.
I reckon a lot of developers are more than happy to sacrifice 8GB of RAM for near-instant advanced autocomplete and typechecking, but we should keep in mind that it should not become a requirement to do basic development.
On the other hand, development tools simply require a lot of resources: a debug build is always going to be more demanding than a production build, and a full recompilation of something like Firefox is never going to be fast.
I reckon a lot of developers are more than happy to sacrifice 8GB of RAM for near-instant advanced autocomplete and typechecking, but we should keep in mind that it should not become a requirement to do basic development.