[rcxdude]

I do think most of the comments here are missing the core point, which isn't so much about whether your development environment is running on your laptop or on the cloud, but more that it's possible to stand up your own environment with a functional version of your product. It's distressingly common that this isn't possible, and you can only test and integrate your code in a single shared development environment, or worse, production, and that neither of these are actually reproducible.

[davnn]

That's the point I was trying to make, which is also why I brought up 'pseudo-local' development environments in the article.

[Aeolun]

We worked like this for 5 years, and the highlight of the new project we’re finally starting is to keep it all reproductible from the start.

It’s a constant fight though.