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Very nice - moves in this direction will give more developers the ability to use lower-end computers like Chromebooks to do just about everything.
by elamje 7y ago
Very nice - moves in this direction will give more developers the ability to use lower-end computers like Chromebooks to do just about everything.
- simias 7y agoIs the editor/IDE really the limitation? If anything web-technology-based IDEs are usually the ones wasting resources nowadays, my long-lived emacs session running the SLIME environment to interact with common lisp uses a meager (by modern standards) 110MB of RAM. I used a very similar setup 15 years ago on a computer with 512MB of RAM and a single-core 1.5GHz CPU. You can already develop very comfortably on a chromebook if you're willing to forsake the bloat of the web. Actually if I can trust Wikipedia a modern Chromebook outperforms my main desktop machine a decade ago. Putting everything in the cloud doesn't strike me as a great step forward, although it could have its uses.
- elamje 7y agoWell, you might be biased by the fact that you are fluent in emacs and/or vim. 90+% of modern programmers use heavier IDE's in their work.
- lostintangent 7y agoExactly! We want to empower developers to work from anywhere and have the flexibility to choose the editor and device that makes them most productive.