I’m online 98% of the time. My local tooling works 100% of the time. I’d want to defenestrate my laptop if it stopped working for a silly reason.
Grace doesn't change anything about that for you. You still write code locally, and `grace watch` will sync you up when you reconnect.
You can't `git push` without an internet connection, either, and you can't work on your Azure / GCP / AWS resources. Or your Google Docs. Or your email. Or your Teams chat. Source control isn't a special case that must work offline, it's just that we're used to Git, and we pay the bad-UX tax of using a distributed VCS as a centralized VCS, because very few of us push to production from our dev boxes, only from a (Git)hub.
Assuming a working internet connection in the late 2020's (i.e. roughly when Git will be replaced by some competitor) is not a blocker for almost every developer in the world. And Git will still be there if offline usage is a hard requirement.
I'd put it at more like the late 2050s. I think it achieved critical mass. It certainly doesn't look like it's going anywhere in the next few years.
Isn't this backward? Your local copy is authoritative because you've never pushed anywhere (-:
I know it's probably overkill and you should just use git (or just use folder backups or something if it really is just local) but you could in theory run the grace server locally too, I imagine.
Can you still branch and commit locally, and that will also sync?