A few things come to mind on how this could be really useful: - not having to install things like Docker and Postgres on my own machine, save space, not having

A few things come to mind on how this could be really useful: - not having to install things like Docker and Postgres on my own machine, save space, not having to get a computer with as much space in the first place - not having the heaving lifting on my machine means that I won't get the whirring fan and heat from my laptop - not having to deal with managing different versions of node on my machine for different projects - developer onboarding could be faster. There were a lot of little details to get up and running. Getting the npmrc token on my machine so I can install the private packages etc. etc. These could just live in the cloned cloud box that every new developer gets. - lower the barrier of entry for new developers to just start doing something fun and useful. First day of bootcamp was this install-fest where instructor had to babysit everyone to make sure they got everything configured right. It's probably good for people to learn that stuff eventually but it would help to be able to just jump right in. One downside: if the wifi is down you won't get able to get anything done at all. My go-to cloud IDE so far has been Stackblitz. I use it to do little proof of concept stuff, share the link with people. But I prefer working in my own text editor. And you can't do anything more than a simple throwaway project in stackblitz.