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It worries me too. Why bother setting up a local dev environment if it's a single click to get up and going on GitHub, right? Everyone is too eager to set the
by donmcronald 7y ago
It worries me too. Why bother setting up a local dev environment if it's a single click to get up and going on GitHub, right?
Everyone is too eager to set themselves up to be taken advantage of tomorrow as long as they can save a minute today, often by spending their employers' money. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually the free tier of GitHub comes with X free build minutes, X free Visual Studio Online minutes, etc.. That way you never learn to do anything for yourself and as soon as you need to scale up you're extremely vendor locked and overpaying for your tooling.
Remember how everyone freaked out when JetBrains switched to their "subscription" pricing? They charge $650 / year for every IDE or $150 for the personal license. Visual Studio Online is around $1000 / year for a single editor if you figure a 2080 hour work year and there's no personal license.