Yes. Because local development environments (at least for the languages I work with, Python and JavaScript) break ALL THE TIME.
With 20+ years of experience I can just about keep my own laptop ticking over - but it takes work, and every time I mentor a new learner this is the number one sticking point.
The browser-based cloud IDE experience, where it doesn't matter what you've got going on with your laptop, you just visit a URL and start work, is an incredible productivity boost for the vast majority of people.
When I think about how much time was wasted on broken personal development environments at my last big employer (several hundred engineers)... I reckon the lost productivity was easily in the low millions of dollars per year.
Yes. Because local development environments (at least for the languages I work with, Python and JavaScript) break ALL THE TIME.
With 20+ years of experience I can just about keep my own laptop ticking over - but it takes work, and every time I mentor a new learner this is the number one sticking point.
The browser-based cloud IDE experience, where it doesn't matter what you've got going on with your laptop, you just visit a URL and start work, is an incredible productivity boost for the vast majority of people.
When I think about how much time was wasted on broken personal development environments at my last big employer (several hundred engineers)... I reckon the lost productivity was easily in the low millions of dollars per year.