Hello,

Is an Intel i5 (8th gen) with 8GB memory enough for coding?

Depends on what you're coding ?

Graphics ?
ML ?
Web stuff ?
Scientific simulations ?
What ?

Depends what your coding VR no but everything else should be good

For a while, yes.

As you gain experience and branch out to learn more languages and tools, and start doing more complex projects, you'll find 8GB to be somewhat constrained. With virtual machines and large, complicated builds, eventually not even 16GB will be enough.

But you'll see that coming a long time before it's a problem.

@notroot @gruff C++, Rust and maybe ML

@greyfade For something like that I will use DO

Thank you all!

@lmueller I agree with @greyfade

Hi,
Welcome to devrant!
You will figure out by yourself when you need higher specs and mostly you won't!
For machine learning, if it's python you can use Google colab and make use of their free gpu connection to run your code!
Or you can use any pay as you go cloud services like Amazon aws or ms azure to run your code on their server.

640K ought to be enough for anybody!

Probably yes.

Should work totally fine. I'm using an i5-8250U, 8GB and an MX150 and I've never had any problems.

@lmueller

For ml, I have a 4 core cpu at 3.6ghz, 16 gigs of ddr4 ram, and integrated Radeon R7 graphics

You can code on a fucking c64...

@TobyAsE you *could,* but having done so for most of my childhood, I can tell you that it's quite unpleasant.

@greyfade the question was whether {insert specs} were enough to code. And it certainly is. Whether it is pleasant is a totally different question... ;)