Confusion about the system requirements for working on Chromium Codebase

[Yash Joshi]

Hi all,
This is Yash Joshi an undergraduate student from Delhi Technological university India.
Very Much interested in contributing to the chromium org and started by following the building docs @  Chromium Docs - Checking out and building Chromium on Linux (googlesource.com) which specifies 8GB as min RAM requirement.
I have been able to successfully build the chrome exe file but every time opening the all.sln file in the visual studio gives a Visual Studio is not responding error.
I am currently working on an intel i5-1240P laptop (12 gen) along with the 8GB RAM but still not able to even open the project. in VS . Am I doing something wrong, or the RAM is the bottleneck here?
Can you all provide some temp solution till I upgrade my RAM if it is the issue?
P.S.: It took around 12 hours to build chrome on my machine.

[PhistucK]

A little confused here, as the link is to the Linux instructions, but you are talking about Windows...

Anyway, I think it is advised not to load all.sln (and you usually do not need it anyway) -

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#editing-and-debugging-with-the-visual-studio-ide

(If Google says all.sln is slow and they have something like 64+ GB of RAM, I assume 8 GB will simply not work ;))

Another option is to use a much lighter editor like Visual Studio Code and use Chromium Code Search for searching the codebase.

☆PhistucK

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[EC-242 Yash Joshi]

Extremely Grateful for your quick reply.
Yeah, I made a mistake in putting the docs link. I am working on the window build only.
I was not aware that we do not need to load all.sln file. Visual Studio Code worked like a charm :)

Also, To understand the codebase, I plan to start working on the good first bugs @  Issues - chromium, but I am not able to understand how to sort them using the tech involved to solve the bug. I have some knowledge of C++ and JS (done a few full-stack projects using MERN tech). 
I would really appreciate it if you could guide me on where to start with the given skillset to get familiarity with such a vast codebase.

Regards.
Yash Joshi 

[PhistucK]

The majority of the Chromium code is in C++, so it is likely C++ that you need. There is some JavaScript (most of it is/should be TypeScript) and other languages.

Without specific examples, it is hard to tell you what technologies are used, as each issue can involve a completely different part of the browser,

The component column is probably more relevant - pick something that piques your interest and start from there. You can ask questions within the issue (you can also ask here, as issues are not always being looked at, I guess, but if someone engages with you within the issue, you better continue there in order to keep the details in the appropriate context there).

☆PhistucK

[Yash Joshi]

I appreciate your clarification. Am currently working on finding some easy bugs to get going initially.
Will Surely keep your pointers in mind.
Thanks and Regards,
Yash Joshi