Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers
Extremely, violently unpopular opinion: a team of people developing on their laptops is an anti-pattern.I know what you're gonna say. You'll say, "It's 2022. We developers don't have internet connections; even when we do, our internet is off most of the time, and we can barely transfer 1.25 megabytes per second. How could we possibly use an IDE and filesystem monitor to copy a 10kB source file when we write to it, to a remote container + open shell with our app running? The technology is simply too complicated for us. We will never see such wonders in our lifetime."And I would say to you: take courage. If you believe in yourself, and maybe with some luck, it might be possible for you to do development remotely, like every server admin has been doing over telnet and ssh for over 30 years.Maybe in another 30 years, we will have gained the technological insight to be able to figure out how to have a team full of people to work on a single server at the same time, all connected to a network over an internet connection, with some crazy interface that keeps their shell session alive even if their internet disconnects. A man can dream...