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Is the direction in which all software development is heading?

• exabrial 5y ago
  For the next 5 years until the fashion trend wears off. We used to write COBOL using thin client on mainframes. Then we moved to development locally.
• spfzero 5y ago
  The team here is part of the company that markets Codespaces. They're not actually representative of other companies, so I wouldn't take this as a direction all software development would be taking.
• sundbry 5y ago
  No. You can achieve the same benefits of local reproducibility with Nix/Guix. Guix is more composable IMO because you can program multi-service development environments entirely in scheme.
  • kook_throwaway 5y ago
    Nix seems to have that ability via Disnix[1], though I haven't used it. Looking through the manual[2] it still looks like its in nix. [1] https://github.com/svanderburg/disnix https://github.com/svanderburg/disnix [2] http://hydra.nixos.org/job/disnix/disnix-trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual http://hydra.nixos.org/job/disnix/disnix-trunk/tarball/lates...