Ask HN: Macbook Air for Development?

hello, I am thinking of replacing my dell xps 15 (9550) - 32gb/uhd touchscreen display.

I use vs code and sometimes visual studio or intellij (scala/java)

I don't think I have ever used more than about 12gb ram even when pushing the system with vm's and with docker nowadays i don't get anywhere near that.

Does anyone else use a macbook air (8gb) - at about £900 they seem much more reasonably priced than mac book pro's - if I ever did need to do any real heavy lifting I could use my old xps.