Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Why do people consistently try to run dev tools on their local OS when there are plenty of easy and cheap alternatives to accomplish more stable, reliable and reproducible environment?

Just get a $5/mo cloud instance and run your stuff as same OS as production and let other people check your environment even while your machine is turned off and continue working on another machine without duplicating the environment.

If you still want it locally, use VMware fusion which became free for personal use lately and run a real Linux like your servers do.

I see no benefit in running stuff on local OS.




> I see no benefit in running stuff on local OS.

A database on localhost is the fastest way to run your tests that need to talk to a DB.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: