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> most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work

we think this is a situation of "skating to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is", but we do have plans to build a bridge between an offline/online dev environment. If you'd like an invite, please email me at arun <at> action <dot> io

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Is there any reason you couldn't keep an offline copy of the environment in the browser by using http://bellard.org/jslinux/? It takes a while to boot, but if you saved the RAM to local storage then it should resume instantly.

You'd have to sync the state of the VM when they come online again, but that could be done efficiently from within the VM in a manner similar to dropbox syncing.

I'm offline multiple times a week, it wouldn't be enjoyable for me or useful for you guys at this stage.

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