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This is why cloud development environments are a bad idea, instead companies should be focused on open source and client-side automated solutions.

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I think that's a bit of a hastily generalization. We mentioned in the post (under Technology) that it's still beta quality.

More generally though we have millions of users that don't have the luxury of running a fancy local developer environment. Either they're on chromebooks or tablets or they don't have a computer altogether.

You don't need anything fancy to run a developer environment. Why not just build a local developer IDE app for Android, if you're the development experts? There are already self-hosted server solutions for development environments, and mobile developer applications for Android. The first thing you see on your website is "sign up" or "log in". Most of those "developers" are just getting started and will resent your products in a couple years. Just give them time.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Like Dropbox? I’ll just leave this here: [1]. The details are seldom easy.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Cool idea. Build it ;)

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