On the one hand, maintaining local development environments that work reliably across larger team if developers is a HUGE cost in terms of time and effort. Developers are amazing at breaking their environments in unexpected ways. It’s common for teams to lose many hours a week to problems related to this.
So I love the idea of cloud-based development environments where, if something breaks, a developer can click a button on a website, wait a few minutes and have a fresh working environment ready to go again.
But… modern laptops are getting SO fast now. It’s increasingly difficult to provide a cloud-based environment that’s remotely as performant as a M2 or M3 laptop.
On the one hand, maintaining local development environments that work reliably across larger team if developers is a HUGE cost in terms of time and effort. Developers are amazing at breaking their environments in unexpected ways. It’s common for teams to lose many hours a week to problems related to this.
So I love the idea of cloud-based development environments where, if something breaks, a developer can click a button on a website, wait a few minutes and have a fresh working environment ready to go again.
But… modern laptops are getting SO fast now. It’s increasingly difficult to provide a cloud-based environment that’s remotely as performant as a M2 or M3 laptop.