Products like this have existed in various forms for a few years now, but this is poised to set a new bar. I wonder at what point a significant number of compan

Products like this have existed in various forms for a few years now, but this is poised to set a new bar. I wonder at what point a significant number of companies will start issuing their developers lightweight laptops and just having them use a web-based environment for everything. It seems almost inevitable (at least, when developing applications that are sufficiently abstracted from the underlying system). Edit: it also occurs to me that this could be Microsoft's big end-game from all of their recent dev-focused work and acquisitions (VSCode, NPM, GitHub, TypeScript, WSL, etc.). If they create a world where a significant fraction of developers who currently buy their dev environments from Apple start renting them from MS instead, that's a huge deal. And of course there's lots of potential for synergy with Azure on top of that.