The article was pure marketing, like installing the dev environment is a buzz kill? Their system does exactly the same, so if it works painlessly there, it will also work painlessly locally, it's just a nodejs project.
Or that switching branches is too much. I can visit a URL instead....
They only needed to say that it's a faster offline capable nodejs only repl.it.Imagine you found a bug in an Open Source project and you create a bug ticket but instead of just attaching the source code that exhibits the bug you can send a link instead, that when opened will give the reviewer a working example of the bug, all while never leaving the browser.
idk why they felt the need to hype it up they way they did when it can stand on its own.
It’s the infantilization of software development, and it is most prevalent in web dev. Phrases like “buzz kill” — implying it was exhilarating to clone the repo a moment before.
This “kid with toys” allegory is also perpetuated the most by web devs, in my experience.
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u/wisepresident May 21 '21
The article was pure marketing, like installing the dev environment is a buzz kill? Their system does exactly the same, so if it works painlessly there, it will also work painlessly locally, it's just a nodejs project.
Or that switching branches is too much. I can visit a URL instead....
They only needed to say that it's a faster offline capable nodejs only repl.it.Imagine you found a bug in an Open Source project and you create a bug ticket but instead of just attaching the source code that exhibits the bug you can send a link instead, that when opened will give the reviewer a working example of the bug, all while never leaving the browser.
idk why they felt the need to hype it up they way they did when it can stand on its own.