An extreme case, for sure.
You likely would be remoting into this machine to compile this work, in any scenario involving you working on a mobile device.
With that being said, 16GB would preclude you, too.
Like the fellow above, still genuinely curious how 8GB is repelling a significant amount of people for a development machine.
A pixel2 with 8GB is a rocket ship, for my general full-stackery and system administrationating purposes.