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Best practice changes rapidly, local dev environments have proven to be an endless pain in the ass. Apple M1 silicon is the final nail. The next 10 years of “b

Best practice changes rapidly, local dev environments have proven to be an endless pain in the ass. Apple M1 silicon is the final nail. The next 10 years of “best practices” will return to dumb clients and dynamically provisioned dev environments. It’s simply so much easier.

TameAntelope 5y ago
As someone who has responsibility over how shitty the local development experience is for my org, I recently saw GitHub Workspaces and am curious if that could be a viable option.
- bluehatbrit 5y ago
  I've been using GH Codespaces for a side project when on the go for a while now. When I'm travelling or recently when moving house I've been able to use my terrible but light weight laptop with vscode + gh codespaces. It's been a complete dream! When running the same project locally on the laptop it's slow and makes development a real pain but codespaces has given the laptop a new lease of life. I'm not sure if the price lines up well enough for a daily-drive for a company, but if I were managing dev environments for an org these days I'd probably jump to something similar. Perhaps something like a decent size EC2 on AWS where devs can tear it down and spin it up again to start from scratch within a couple minutes. Throw away dev environments feels like a game changer having used it for the past 6 months on-the-go.
globular-toast 5y ago
It sounds like the exact same thing but with added latency. I hate latency. It baffles me why anyone would choose an incompatible architecture only to run dumb clients on it. You might as well just save your money and run the dumb clients on 20 year old hardware. Or you could spend less money on a laptop that is actually compatible with whatever platform you are deploying to and enjoy low-latency local development.
- datalopers 5y ago
  I’d try VSCode with Remote SSH. Maybe it’s because I’m 10ms from my datacenter but I experience no lag and things have always felt just as speedy while on random public wifi.

TameAntelope 5y ago

As someone who has responsibility over how shitty the local development experience is for my org, I recently saw GitHub Workspaces and am curious if that could be a viable option.

bluehatbrit 5y ago
I've been using GH Codespaces for a side project when on the go for a while now. When I'm travelling or recently when moving house I've been able to use my terrible but light weight laptop with vscode + gh codespaces. It's been a complete dream! When running the same project locally on the laptop it's slow and makes development a real pain but codespaces has given the laptop a new lease of life. I'm not sure if the price lines up well enough for a daily-drive for a company, but if I were managing dev environments for an org these days I'd probably jump to something similar. Perhaps something like a decent size EC2 on AWS where devs can tear it down and spin it up again to start from scratch within a couple minutes. Throw away dev environments feels like a game changer having used it for the past 6 months on-the-go.

globular-toast 5y ago

It sounds like the exact same thing but with added latency. I hate latency. It baffles me why anyone would choose an incompatible architecture only to run dumb clients on it. You might as well just save your money and run the dumb clients on 20 year old hardware. Or you could spend less money on a laptop that is actually compatible with whatever platform you are deploying to and enjoy low-latency local development.

datalopers 5y ago
I’d try VSCode with Remote SSH. Maybe it’s because I’m 10ms from my datacenter but I experience no lag and things have always felt just as speedy while on random public wifi.