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Ask HN: Building a fast PC for development (JS)
I've been pondering building a dedicated server for my development work.
Building a Vue app on my Windows laptop (i7-9750H 64GB RAM) takes ~35s in WSL. I wanted to see if I could improve that down to 10s or so. So I spun up some test cloud machines, including a DO droplet with 64 GB of RAM, 32 CPUs, and two SSDs, running Ubuntu 20.04.
Time on that machine: ~23s
Given how expensive that server is, I'm not hopeful, and it's a shameful state of software development ecosystems if you ask me... but I digress. Does anyone have any recommendations on what an optimized build system would look like?