Well that's an interesting journey, the tl;dr is simplicity wins out (a Linux VM but with their 'spin' on it), as opposed to Macos' hacky workarounds, laptops i

Well that's an interesting journey, the tl;dr is simplicity wins out (a Linux VM but with their 'spin' on it), as opposed to Macos' hacky workarounds, laptops in general, or k8s for dev. In the end I feel, developing closest the environment you're deploying to is the option that gives devs the least overheadache. This isn't the first of it's kind I've read, and I'm slowly seeing the return of thin clients as a dev environment, and we might see more articles on HN along the same lines. Given the complexity of modern development toolchains, it does make a lot of sense to consolidate for ease of management.