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And the pendulum swings another few degrees towards thin clients and “mainframes”. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s definitely a more commo
by falcolas 5y ago
And the pendulum swings another few degrees towards thin clients and “mainframes”.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s definitely a more common thing as even our super powerful laptops can’t run full application backend (not saying they couldn’t if it was a goal, but they can’t).
- imchillyb 5y agoThe world's rich and powerful want you to rent your software, and allowing them to force us into mainframe/client architecture again, will force us to rent hardware as well. I want to own, not rent. Thus, I will never support mainframe/client architecture for end-users, or developers.
- josephcsible 5y agoYou don't need to be opposed to that kind of architecture to avoid that problem. You just need to make sure everything running on the "mainframe" side is licensed under the AGPL.
- pjmlp 5y agoWell, that is the whole point of UNIX.
- ghuntley 5y agoYep. Gitpod is thin client for hipsters. Unlike Virtual Desktop Infrastructure which is all about unburdening system administrators at the expense of developer happiness. Cloud-based, reproducible developer environments like Gitpod are all about developer experience and sparking joy for software engineers. See https://Ghuntley.com/anywhere https://Ghuntley.com/anywhere for further thoughts on the flip and flop.