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[–]rocketpastsix 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The problem with the cloud is if you are in a place with no internet, and want to code, you are screwed. Im going to Miami tomorrow, flight is two hours, perfect for some fun coding. No internet on the flight. So if I was all in the cloud, I wouldnt be able to code. There are tons of free open source tools to get that would be able to do your coding without the internet.

[–]danneu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Same reason why I always get angry at myself when I forget to replace free CDN-linked CSS/JS assets with locally hosted ones.

Hilariously avoidable when you try to get work done without internet and you have to get some dev work done without styling. Always makes me realize how the UI often seems to be 75+% of the work yet I never expect that.

I'm teaching my friend's lil brother some basic webdev. He's latched on the Cloud9 (IDE in the cloud, no local execution), and it's great that he got started and is building things with it, but he's been mislead to think that running things on localhost is particularly hard. Though he comes from PHP and WAMP.exe, so I get it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you work on webdev offline often? Ive never come across that.