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What does local first mean in this context? Does it just mean local? Like, the software runs locally?
by josephg 8mo ago
What does local first mean in this context? Does it just mean local? Like, the software runs locally?
- harshdoesdev 8mo agoyeah, it just means everything runs on your machine. there are services like E2B, sprites.dev and others that give you sandboxes in the cloud. shuru runs VMs locally using Apple's Virtualization.framework, so nothing leaves your Mac.
- userbinator 8mo agoUnfortunately yes. It's just another stupid marketing buzzword these days.
- Xlab 8mo agoit's the other way around, everything is in the cloud now (upload your files to us, we are privacy respecting, bla bla) So it's good that the product actually highlights it is dealing with local hardware only.
- userbinator 8mo agoI don't expect "Linux MicroVMs for macOS" to have anything to do with clouds.
- josephg 8mo agoYes, but we have a perfectly serviceable term for local software already: "local software". To me, "local-first software" means something slightly different. The term was coined by this essay[1], which says: > Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices > This means that while local-first apps keep their data in local storage on each device, it is also necessary for that data to be synchronized across all of the devices on which a user does their work. But this is clearly not what's going on here. This project is just local software, like we've had forever. If a fancy new "local first" buzzword makes local-only software seem more sexy, then I suppose I don't want to get too mad about it. I really like local software. But the autist in me likes it when technical terms have a well defined meaning. [1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/ https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
- allthetime 8mo ago"Local First" implies that something is second.
- winstonwinston 8mo agoTo me it implies it is designed to be used local, instead of an afterthought feature.
- josephg 8mo agoThats like describing a mobile only game as "mobile first", even when the developers have no plans to ever port it to other platforms. Its a mobile game. The grep command line utility isn't local first. Its just local software.
- fulafel 8mo agoSeems it only support macOS so for practical purpouses it's local-only.