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| It has always been difficult for programmers to organize and work on projects across a variety of locations, computers, and devices – especially when you work

by mtogo 15y ago

| It has always been difficult for programmers to organize and work on projects across a variety of locations, computers, and devices – especially when you work in teams. When you store your code on one computer at one location, you become tied down to that one computer, finding yourself running back to that machine each time a you’re hit with coding inspiration. Worse, if you’re working in a team, each member of the team has to send their code to every other member, each step of the way, creating organizational distractions and unnecessary delays. If only there was some kind of tool to solve this problem. It could keep track of revisions and allow a team to work together on a codebase more easily. We could call it 'Version Control'. And maybe, what if there was a way to develop on another machine remotely? Maybe like some kind of... secure telnet? We could call it Secure SHell. Man, it'd be cool if you could just SSH into your server and code from there. Nah, let's just use clumsy web-based IDEs.

joeyespo 15y ago
Sure, that was my initial thought too. But something like this becomes useful for things like IDE settings across machines. Version control solves the problem of sharing code across people and time, yes. This is more for sharing your development environment across different machines. Without needing to set up any kind of SSH on your own. And it's only clumsy because it's still so new. I do think it'll be interesting to see this technology mix with version control and source code hosts. You could quickly tweak a few code files and commit a single change on GitHub. On a friends computer. Without sacrificing your editor of choice. Or perhaps further in the future, you could edit a view on on Heroku and see the changes happen immediately on a test server they'd be hosting with absolutely no local setup. Cool things can happen as this technology matures.

by mtogo 15y ago

joeyespo 15y ago

Sure, that was my initial thought too. But something like this becomes useful for things like IDE settings across machines. Version control solves the problem of sharing code across people and time, yes. This is more for sharing your development environment across different machines. Without needing to set up any kind of SSH on your own. And it's only clumsy because it's still so new. I do think it'll be interesting to see this technology mix with version control and source code hosts. You could quickly tweak a few code files and commit a single change on GitHub. On a friends computer. Without sacrificing your editor of choice. Or perhaps further in the future, you could edit a view on on Heroku and see the changes happen immediately on a test server they'd be hosting with absolutely no local setup. Cool things can happen as this technology matures.