> I'm typing this on an 8 GB MacBook Air and it works just fine.

Most cool. Is it an M1?

Not the OP, but I have an M1 MBA and it handles light "coding" stuff quite well, though haven't tried VSCode+Zoom+bunch of other stuff, as my work laptop is a M1 MBP.

Same. I've been programming in Go on an M1 for years and perf is spectacular.

M2