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Yes, you can. Web IDEs are usually some sort of containerized linux environment with a text editor and a terminal. All accessible in the browser. What kind of
by sdf4j 4y ago
Yes, you can.
Web IDEs are usually some sort of containerized linux environment with a text editor and a terminal. All accessible in the browser. What kind of lack of control are you thinking of?
- spc476 4y ago30 years of experience of using UNIX as my IDE, with my editor and debugger of choice. All I see is the industry heading back to the 60s, where the high priests took care of the computer, and users were an after thought that paid for CPU and storage. We had the PC revolution for a reason.
- pedro2 4y agoThese things tend to follow circular patterns. In 40 years, if we don't blow ourselves up, we are back on personal computers. If until then I'm able to compile stuff on my computer, I'll be happy (source available <> able to compile).
- pjmlp 4y agoThe UNIX high priests here quite active up to 15 years ago, in 2005 I was still telneting into the UNIX development server and starting my own graphical tools via X remote sessions.
- daenz 4y agoFor example, the ability to spin up ad-hoc services to test the software against, like if I was replacing mysql with postgres, or experimenting with a caching service. If I have access to a terminal connected to a container, that's nice, and maybe I can experiment with some of these services, but if this container is in a Pod in Kubernetes and the K8s scheduler decides to move my Pod to another node, I just lost all of my custom work.
- number6 4y agoNext step would be to put all on a server together with VC, Issues, and CI.