[rizzaxc]

more like because the language is a non obvious clusterfuck that requires self-inflicted pain to be productive in. sounds like a good use case for a remote container

not to mention, pair programming/ merge review will be easier, making guiding juniors more efficient. of course i'm not saying it'll be all positive but there are legitimate reasons gitlab is doing this

[happymellon]

If we were allowed to use a real OS, you could just run local containers. Or hell, this was solved with Vagrant how many years ago?

Why does it have to be remote?

The whole point is that I don't always have internet access, sometimes there are outages and sometimes it's just plain slow for some reason. It's shit enough all the video calls I have to be involved in these days, not as bad as all the face the face meetings in crampt rooms with everyone falling asleep because of the lack of air circulation. Why do you want to make the development environment crappier?

It also isn't clear how it would make code reviews better, or even paired programming? Shared workspaces are already a thing.