GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Post by gosukiwi » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #143

sergiotapia wrote: post #110

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jamstack is very fucked up to me, glad I'm not going crazy. you basically offload EVERYTHING to 3rd parties.

There's nothing about jamstack that requires you to use third-parties (except the CDN part, I guess, but that's just a mirror). You could just as easily host your own CMS and database and call out to it the same way. It's just that like auth, logging, etc, CDNs have been neatly abstracted out and service-ified in such a way that it's often more economical to go third-party. But that choice is orthogonal to jamstack.

Post by msbarnett » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

keithwhor wrote: post #115

gosukiwi wrote: post #91

Ugh, now not only you don't own your code ( ahem copilot cough ) you also don't own the tools to develop code. The direction the web is taking is worrisome. The issue is not so much senior devs, but new devs. If they start off with things like that, there' so much magic under the hood, they won't understand how anything works. They don't understand they don't own shit until it's too late. I remember when I first saw…

The same thing was said about every programming abstraction to ever be introduced. How do we expect people to build memory-efficient applications when they become reliant on a garbage collector?

Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

geofft wrote: post #144

Raed667 wrote: post #135

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The difference is that you don't pay a monthly subscription to use a garbage collector.

There's two things happening in this post: 1. Development environments are running on Kubernetes, and VS Code is remoting into them. You don't have to pay a monthly subscription for that. VS Code remoting is free-as-in-beer and Kubernetes is free-as-in-speech. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/azure/kubernetes 2. The actual Kubernetes hosting is the product "GitHub Codespaces" running on Azure. GitHub certainly isn'…

Post by EugeneOZ » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 5:06 PM UTC

Post by jackling » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

georgeecollins wrote: post #71

pegler wrote: post #19

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I am wary of requiring an internet connection in order to develop, but there seem to be more and more advantages to using something like Codespaces. The article describes using pretty much any IDE, so they are just offloading the setup and running of the development environment to the cloud while letting you run your preferred IDE locally.

I can see how a web based IDE speeds up on boarding and reduces the friction in support and collaboration. But I wonder if it reduces the skills engineers develop over time?