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> I think people like not having their physical machine tied to their dev environment. I'm curious to know if this statement is true. Most experienced develope
by FlyingSnake 5y ago
> I think people like not having their physical machine tied to their dev environment.
I'm curious to know if this statement is true. Most experienced developers these days have a regular desk and a chair where they like to code and focus. How prevalent is the move-and-code scenario?
- gray_-_wolf 5y agoIt's not just that. There is also the matter of laptop getting broken (we all have proper backups, right? right?), stolen, ... So I do see the appeal in thin client. My only issue is that the experience his closely tied to latency, so sometimes working over ssh is... irritating. Especially on mobile connection.
- dcreager 5y agoIt’s all Docker images under the covers, so our devs also have the option of downloading and running that image locally instead of in a Codespaces VM. That was always possible before, of course, but Codespaces gave us the impetus to invest the effort in Dockerizing the dev environment more rigorously.
- gray_-_wolf 5y agoOh, that is cool. Sounds like a nice mix actually. Local vim, browsers, known system. And container with mount-bind to actually compile and run stuff in.
- hutzlibu 5y agoI like it a lot. My usually setup is chrome dev tools and some node servers fired up, so quite easy to replicate. But I still prefer to just move my laptop around.