> My friends, I’m here to tell you I was a Codespaces skeptic before this started and now I am not. This is the way. ~@iolsen
I don't actually doubt that this (and the 4 other glowing employee quotes) are real, but even assuming they are, I can understand people remaining skeptical about the sample size of 5 being broadly representative of the 100s (1000s?) of engineers at the company.
Also slightly hilarious that "This is the way" is a Star Wars callback referring to a character blindly following dogma before eventually realising the error of their ways...
On the other hand, there's quite a few "hints" littered throughout the article that their current setup is a bit of a beast, so I can definitely imagine some engineers being relieved to be able to get such a behemoth off their physical laps/desks: I guess if the local development experience is sufficiently brittle & frustrating, any alternative may seem welcome.
I don't actually doubt that this (and the 4 other glowing employee quotes) are real, but even assuming they are, I can understand people remaining skeptical about the sample size of 5 being broadly representative of the 100s (1000s?) of engineers at the company.
Also slightly hilarious that "This is the way" is a Star Wars callback referring to a character blindly following dogma before eventually realising the error of their ways...
On the other hand, there's quite a few "hints" littered throughout the article that their current setup is a bit of a beast, so I can definitely imagine some engineers being relieved to be able to get such a behemoth off their physical laps/desks: I guess if the local development experience is sufficiently brittle & frustrating, any alternative may seem welcome.