Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution(mikenikles.com)

6 pointsby ghuntleyvor 4 Jahren1 comments

Dev environments in the cloud are a half-baked solution

https://www.mikenikles.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-a-half-baked-solution

2 comments

Shinmonvor 4 Jahren

I tend to believe that most developers want to have control over their dev environment. Rarely have I seen two devs use the same setup. Everyone uses different IDEs, editors, additional tools, etc.

Actually, I would argue that a not too small percentage of developers would not take a job if the dev environment doesn't meet their needs. To get me to develop on a windows computer would take a lot of other perks to even consider it.

In my opinion, the trend towards online dev environments is catering the ML/data science community. A lot of data scientists do not have the same skill set developers have. Setting up all libraries and device drivers is tedious.

Think GPU + matching CUDA version + matching PyTorch version. Oh, for training you need to use an HPC which needs different versions.

I haven't used Nix which is proposed as the solution to all the problems. Therefore, I cannot really say anything about that.

aguyisherevor 4 Jahren