I'm really not a fan of the trend towards everything being remote-hosted. With things like this and also Stadia and Google Colab, it seems like the big three c

I'm really not a fan of the trend towards everything being remote-hosted. With things like this and also Stadia and Google Colab, it seems like the big three cloud providers are rushing us toward a world where almost everything is executed in a datacenter somewhere, and your workstation is just an interface. I think this development is especially dangerous with how Microsoft is positioned with Github. They already own where a huge percentage of open-source code is hosted. If they also come to own the defacto place that code is compiled and executed, that would give them a huge amount of power in the industry. If you're not in control of the hardware your code is compiled and executed on, someone else can place limits on what works and what doesn't. Who's to say Microsoft wouldn't use that to benefit Azure and Windows to the detriment of competitors, consumers, and developers.