Is Macbook air 2013 good for Swift programming and web development?

Question

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Hello Toaster! I am a web developer and want to start learning swift. I didn't have a mac before. I decided to buy a Macbook to learn swift. Found on ebay Macbook air c i5 and 256 gb ssd. Will this Mac be enough for my tasks?

Answer 1

Easily. The main thing is that from 8 gigabytes of RAM. 4 GB is not enough.
There is something strange in poppies with RAM, or is it Unix-like behavior when all RAM is reserved, but not used, or this kind of optimization, but in reality I have 3-4 out of 16 GB free. Profile - PHP and Android development, constantly 1-2 virtual machines (Vagrant, Genymotion).
On Windows, 8 gigabytes is enough for me.

Answer 2

What matters is how much RAM. If 8 is enough for the eyes :)

Answer 3

I have 2.8 out of 16 free now. Webstorm, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Slack, Sketch, Skype are open and a couple of node servers are running. Oh, I wouldn't take a car with 8GB.
For XCode, this is definitely enough, but hardly for comfortable work on the web.