CoW doesn't require reinstall of dependencies as they're part of the same directory tree, so should be immediately accessible (I've been using this way for a couple months now and it works fine)
The application running (port config) problem is an issue for frameworks and build tools to figure out around the shift towards multiple live working copies at once
The tools that facilitate this will win imo
I use Laravel Herd along with Polyscope (made by the same company). Together they enable CoW clones with their own dev domains - it's zero setup and works super well for my use-case
I can see a simpler version of the same thing being very neat dev experience across many stacks
This is a guest post from Saurav Pathak, CPO at Bagisto, the open-source Laravel eCommerce platform. Bagisto's mobile admin, NativeBagisto, is built with NativePHP and available on the Play Store.
A two-man team, we're enabling PHP developers to get into mobile app development as easily as possible - no need to learn new languages, no new skills, just a few commands and away you go.
NativePHP is the library. Bifrost is the build and release service, getting apps into the stores faster than anything else.
This month we're planning to release the first fully open source version of the Mobile package.
How's it going?
We've sold over 2,000 licenses since May. We built Bifrost over the summer and it already has almost 300 monthly subscribers.
We just gave away another 1,000 licenses to the African PHP community.
My wife is a stylist and does an online-only version of this (and other related services) over at https://estilistas.co.uk/ (hope no one minds the plug!)
I'm always surprised how often her clients come back multiple times per year. She's had quite a few from the US and Canada too. She caters for men & women
I'm no physicist, but I do enjoy hypothesising what these sorts of things could be.
It's interesting when the question of what is driving electrons across these filaments at near-light speed is still open... could they be natural accelerators? What if you could ride one of these filaments?
Or what if they're like the exhaust trails of an FTL vehicle/body? Or something inter-dimensional?
Knowing they're very far away, are we looking for them closer to home? Can they even be observed with such clarity if they were closer to us?