Garbage-collection-as-a-service would get a ton of venture capital though.

Oh wow, AR/VR mark/sweep applications! Those VR rooms get messy, who is going to clean them up?

At patent office right now with this. My attorney said will go through the USPO like butter.

There are a ton of a companies that help you track cloud spend, while some of it is architectural, most is really about waste, old ec2 image backups, s3 with no lifecycle policies ... garbage

Hahaha cloud-based garbage collection. Made me giggle.

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't paying a monthly fee to themselves for this; they are, technically, self-hosting it. I agree that you probably do want to have the option to run it yourself, but I think you do, given 1.

Microsoft probably does internal billing here, right?

I mean, probably for the actual Azure usage, but that's not different from billing yourself for development VMs or Mac laptops or whatever (i.e., they'd be doing that independent of this approach). I assume the Codespaces team is getting plenty of value out of GitHub dogfooding the product and doesn't need to bill themselves for its use.

This is already a thing, if you look at Java (old-school ik), Oracle vs OpenJDK [1].

I don’t see why that would be a problem though? If I can pay a company to provide improved GC for my infra, where the cost savings made it beneficial, I would do it…

[1] https://superuser.com/a/1365224

have you heard of Azul Zing?

(not entirely serious, but it has a very expensive monthly fee for what is in essence a better GC algorithm)

I bet somewhere you just gave a Lang Developer a monetization idea...

This will be coming to a cloud service near you

The garbage collector should pay _me_ to use it.

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

In some cities you do, and they're often controlled by organized crime.

(Whether this comment is a metaphor for SaaS is left as an exercise for the reader.)