I've been doing Android since 2011 and went through Eclipse, IntelliJ, then Android Studio and through various apps (from Starbucks, Ookla Speedtest, to smaller things like 8tracks online radio app). I get it that most users are 'happy with their 5 year old machine running two emulators and building big apps and having no issues with', but that's until you try the same in a newer machine, with faster CPU/GPU and more RAM (and possibly much faster IO), that you realize, wow, this is much snappier than before! Chrome is a monster (I use FFOX, and it's not much better), basically because web 'pages' became 'web apps' and well, everything uses RAM. I, too, worked with 8 and 16 gb for years I don't want memory to be an issue at all, now or in 3+ years (Which is roughly what a machine lasts these days, sometimes hopefully more).įrameworks keep getting bigger and demanding more memory, most apps are switching to hybrid approaches (React, Electron, etc.), which is a memory hog anywhere you look at. :) Java is a very demanding language, and IntelliJ as nice at it is, loves memory.
