[mootoday]

I've worked with remote dev environments for many years, including some time with one of the providers of such a service.

It became clear to me that cloud-only is not the way to go, but instead a local-first, cloud-optional approach.

https://mootoday.com/blog/dev-environments-in-the-cloud-are-...

[numbsafari]

This is my biggest complaint with GitHub CodeSpaces.

I should be able to launch a local VM using the GitHub Desktop App just as easily as I can an Azure-hosted instance.

[ParetoOptimal]

But then how will they lock you into paying them monthly?

[numbsafari]

They’re just forcing me to stop paying them altogether.

[mikeocool]

Look into dev containers — if you set one up for your repo, you get pretty much the same experience as GitHub Codespaces, but the choice of running it locally.