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This bundle is much more than just OSes and Editors, but includes a lot of coding services which can be a distraction to maintain while also handling one's educ
by Sanddancer 12y ago
This bundle is much more than just OSes and Editors, but includes a lot of coding services which can be a distraction to maintain while also handling one's educational requirements. Yes, you can set up TravisCI instances, an email server, a DNS server, etc, for free. At the same time, being able to have someone else worry about bugfixes and the like can be very useful if you've got a project that you just want to hack on without worrying about also being a sysadmin/devops person for your toolchain.
- bvanslyke 12y agoWhen I was learning web development, it was such a PITA learning rails and dealing with all the ops stuff at the same time (so I could show friends my stuff, on a real domain and everything). I envy the kiddos that can just hit the "deploy to azure" button or whatever now. (This reads like an ad for microsoft but I promise I don't work there :)
- Sanddancer 12y agoBingo. Too many colleges still use the ancient and terrible method of requiring one to copy to media between classes, instead of the much nicer, and simpler, git pushes and the like. Add the pain of the overhead associated with a lot of coding frameworks, and you get a lot of ideas that end up stillborn because deployment management is hard, and the free tools are terrible.