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I've worked with remote dev environments for many years, including some time with one of the providers of such a service. It became clear to me that cloud-only
by mootoday 2y ago
I've worked with remote dev environments for many years, including some time with one of the providers of such a service.
It became clear to me that cloud-only is not the way to go, but instead a local-first, cloud-optional approach.
https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-a-half-baked-solution https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-...
- numbsafari 2y agoThis is my biggest complaint with GitHub CodeSpaces. I should be able to launch a local VM using the GitHub Desktop App just as easily as I can an Azure-hosted instance.
- ParetoOptimal 2y agoBut then how will they lock you into paying them monthly?
- numbsafari 2y agoThey’re just forcing me to stop paying them altogether.
- mikeocool 2y agoLook into dev containers — if you set one up for your repo, you get pretty much the same experience as GitHub Codespaces, but the choice of running it locally.