dev/prod divergence isn't the reason to do dev in the cloud. The reason you do dev in the cloud is dev/other-dev divergence. I'm a big fan of doing dev in the

dev/prod divergence isn't the reason to do dev in the cloud. The reason you do dev in the cloud is dev/other-dev divergence. I'm a big fan of doing dev in the cloud (at least for work, no way I'm doing that for personal projects). Currently we use Gitpod, it works pretty well. Spinning up new people is easy, and so is keeping everyone's environment up to date with each other. But even in the bright shiny future of 2030 the dev environment is always going to differ from the production environment because... developers need a bunch of stuff in their image that you don't want installed in production.