I use an M2 Air with 8GB of RAM. I code in Swift, SwiftUI and Rust regularly with Xcode and Zed editor. I play games with Crossover and Native ones such as Control at over 30 fps. The M2 Air is an absolute powerhouse with tremendous battery life. The Neo won't be able to do these things and that's okay, it's not what it's for.

I used a base M1 air for my primary personal laptop for 5 years. It was fine with VS code and any development work sans running containers.

Maybe you should try a MacOS device.

Bruh if 32GB of RAM feels insufficient your computer is broken.