Re:The End of Localhost
by sigmonsays on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:15PM
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to further this along, often i code without internet and just have VMs on my laptop. I think assuming internet is everywhere for development is wrong.
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I'd go so far as to say that "Internet will always be available" is the new generation of "Works on my dev machine, thus it should work everywhere", which was a (common?) assumption over the last few decades.
Aren't people moving to cloud dev environments to solve the issue of "it works on my machine (using emulators, etc)"?
Sure, but by doing that they move under the above mentioned assumption that (fast) internet is always available to all the users, devs, etc.
AFAIK the last big push to get out of "it works on my machine" was the JVM which has become a bloated, inefficient mess that a vast chunk of the industry uses anyway, because most often it's deemed "good enough" and Java, Kotlin etc. devs are relatively easy to find and/or train compared to "native" development in say C/C++, Rust, etc.