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Cloud Developer Environments but Why?

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As the Co-founder of both Codeanywhere and Daytona.io, I appreciate the mention in your comprehensive article.

We agree with many of the points raised in your post. It’s clear that the Enterprise Grade CDE is currently missing in the market. We believe these tools can significantly improve developers’ workflows and efficiency.

Daytona was designed to meet enterprise requirements around security, access controls, infrastructure flexibility, and toolchain customization. Companies can self-manage Daytona and run it on any cloud or on-premises. We see huge potential for cloud development platforms to optimize productivity and security.

I think the “open PR in Gitpod” button for quickly doing reviews in a full IDE was what I needed for my CDE “ahah!” moment.

Gotta second your shout to Webcontainer tech too. Being able to run Sveltekit in the online REPL with a full virtual filesystem / Vite env is pretty incredible. Lots of exciting possibilities there.

Webcontainers is so awesome, also super easy to build with!

Some thoughts about Cloud Developer Environments from using them the past year!

You're spot on that there is still untapped potential with cloud development environments. Daytona.io was founded to build an enterprise-ready solution that addresses pain points like security, access controls, infrastructure flexibility (vendor agnostic), compliance, and customizability. Exciting times ahead!

Not as long as I am forced to use VS Code.

From our experience running Codeanywhere we understand the hesitation around being "forced" into specific tools. Developers should be able to code how they want, on their own terms. We're optimizing Daytona.io to integrate seamlessly with tools developers already love. The focus should be on empowering developers, not restricting them.

I totally agree, while I use VSC myself it's important they stay agnostic. I mentioned "The ideal CDE is [...] enabling you to use all the tools and software you love.". A lot of the CDEs are now becoming less tied to VSC so it's worth checking out some that aren't!

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