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Localhost will always be free, and the cloud will always have a cost. For that reason alone, localhost isn't going anywhere.

• kaetemi 4y ago
  Yep. Most of the people I know don't want to pay subscription fees for cloud services, when their own desktops are powerful enough to run what they're working on. Just automate localhost development environment deployment.
• ozim 4y ago
  I think article is arguing that localhost still has cost when onboarding and maintenance cost that is not really that visible because maintenance happen while devs are doing other task - but usually it is included in some task to setup some config. So I would agree localhost can be basically free, only that company has to keep developers in-house and not burn through 10 juniors each quarter. If company wants to burn through people like Amazon in warehouses then having cloud dev-env is way to go.
• mnd999 4y ago
  Which is why it appeals to GitHub / Microsoft. Now you have to pay them for something you used to do for free.
• satyrnein 4y ago
  Localhost isn't free, we buy more expensive laptops for developers than any other teams.