How to use an old laptop to learn programming?

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  • lapce

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

  • If you want something even faster you could use Lapce instead of VS Code. It's similar to VS Code, but Lapce is written in Rust so it uses much less memory and runs faster.

  • go

    The Go programming language

  • I have an older laptop with similar specs as a backup machine, it has no problems doing far more than C programming. I have Flutter and Go development installs on it with no performance problems in VS Code.

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  • Flutter

    Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

  • I have an older laptop with similar specs as a backup machine, it has no problems doing far more than C programming. I have Flutter and Go development installs on it with no performance problems in VS Code.

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