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I use the 2018 MacBook Air, 1.6ghz 16gb ram as a developer / development manager and it is faster than the 2015 pro it replaced with similar specs. The only thing I've seen it slow down on is compiling Rust, but I think that's just because that operation is slow.

Jetbrains IDEs works fine, not sure about XCode haven't done much with this machine yet in Mac Development.

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Don't know why you are getting down voted. I have the same machine and use it for development. Works just fine for me, and I have a couple of VMs running with my stack on it.

The only thing I've found lacking is the Kerbal Space Program doesn't run very well on it. It runs but the fam quickly ramps up to 100% and get annoying.

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