People act in their own interests, usually prioritizing the medium-term (eg. evaluating every few years/every decade) over the long-term. These products made by the big companies provide immense value that promises to make your life better tomorrow, so most people choose them.

It's over once we don't have control of the compilers. Look at the iPhone.

iPhone is the direction everything is trending.

Fight this bullshit. Call your pro-breakup / anti-trust representatives and give them the reasons this is bad for you and your career. Tell them the narrative and give them ammunition to fight this.

Google, Amazon, Apple, and now Microsoft deserve regulations and/or dissolution.

I don't understand the panic.

This isn't a black-box system, it's github. Owning your artifacts is as simple as setting up a job to automatically clone the repo a couple times a day (assuming your entire company is working through the cloud interface and not a single person already has a local checkout).

Lots of companies put their entire databases in AWS - owned by a company that's already evil, no speculation required - where the egress charges make offsite backups a challenge. And western civilization hasn't collapsed yet.

If GitHub changes its policies one day or shuts down the service... just push to a new repo and switch over to regular workstations.

> This isn't a black-box system, it's github. Owning your artifacts is as simple as setting up a job to automatically clone the repo a couple times a day (assuming your entire company is working through the cloud interface and not a single person already has a local checkout).

Isn't the use-case they're selling in the article approximately "the development environment setup is so fragile that it doesn't work on lots of machines?" I'd be willing to wager that after a few years of the whole team using this, the fragility will be much worse, so moving away will be that much harder.

Fragile in the sense that it might take you hours or days to get it all set up just right. It would be a disruption, like any IT problem, but it's not going to threaten an entire business.

I might be wrong, but it seems to be a combination of visual studio code + container plugin + docker. So you would need to install visual studio code, few plugins and spin up a docker to replicate that environment on the local machine.

> they pay the price for it, then they say we were right

What are you referring to?

github was already turning evil. and being bought by microsoft sealed the deal