I'm a software developer, and I fail to foresee such an impact. For me personally, and for the vast majority of the people I worked with directly in the past.
Could you explain how 6 cores (and possibly 32GB of memory) it would make a dev's life easier, as opposed to 2-4 cores and 8-16GB?
I’m probably on the far extreme of normal, but more cores and more RAM make a huge difference in tasks like rendering, compiling, building projects with huge dependency chains.
For writing some JavaScript web application, the serious horsepower makes a only marginal difference in actual productivity. But on “big” stuff, it can save hours per day, which means savings of real money.
While I understand such monsters do exist, I cannot help but balk in horror at the though of millions of lines of code written in such an unsafe language. Things must have gone wrong on several levels to get to this point.
Maybe UNIX compilers need to do some improvements here.
And when using the experimental modules support it is even faster.
I want to compile 100K lines of code or more in less than one second. Compared to that, C++ is slow as molasses.