Yeah these work well for things like nodejs development windows 10 getting full ubuntu bash will make these little 4 gig devices more useful for command line development. Big ides such as visual studio and android studio will struggle to run on these devices though.
Actually VS is not that much of a memory hog unless you're talking huge projects but storage space could be an issue with VS install (that model has 64GB). I would probably just use VS code and probably wouldn't try to do big C++ project compilation/dev :D
