I’ve never really considered a chromebook for development, and I’m almost certainly going to order a new MacBook pro next month, but we’ve been using Gitpod lately and it (and presumably codespaces) seem like they are really freeing developers from needing beefy machines.
I know you could have gotten a lot of these benefits already by maintaining a bespoke dev server, but having a common set up for a team with prebuilds makes a big difference. Gitpod’s recent open sourcing of their VS Code fork, along with the growth of the open-vsx extension marketplace, seems like it will really open things up further.
I know you could have gotten a lot of these benefits already by maintaining a bespoke dev server, but having a common set up for a team with prebuilds makes a big difference. Gitpod’s recent open sourcing of their VS Code fork, along with the growth of the open-vsx extension marketplace, seems like it will really open things up further.