When I started my degree, logging into UNIX (or mainframe) development server, and use remote editors, or for those lucky ones with X Windows terminals IDEs, was common practice in universities and most big corporations healthy enough to have computing rooms.
If anything, the modern cloud, with browser based terminals, or IDEs, is yet another cycle of everything new is old again, where we mostly changed the underlying technologies while keeping most of the concepts.
This is specially relevant in an age where most developers seem only keen to pay for development tools when they are placed behind a SaaS paywall, hence the push to go back into the classical timesharing development workflows.
This is part of what makes the world interesting. Every little technological and cultural change introduces a new state in which all existing and past technologies can be adapted to new applications. This means endless opportunities for a new life for "dead" tech.
When I started my degree, logging into UNIX (or mainframe) development server, and use remote editors, or for those lucky ones with X Windows terminals IDEs, was common practice in universities and most big corporations healthy enough to have computing rooms.
If anything, the modern cloud, with browser based terminals, or IDEs, is yet another cycle of everything new is old again, where we mostly changed the underlying technologies while keeping most of the concepts.
This is specially relevant in an age where most developers seem only keen to pay for development tools when they are placed behind a SaaS paywall, hence the push to go back into the classical timesharing development workflows.
This is part of what makes the world interesting. Every little technological and cultural change introduces a new state in which all existing and past technologies can be adapted to new applications. This means endless opportunities for a new life for "dead" tech.
Gitpod convinced me that browser-based IDEs work. But it will take some time to replace Intellij...
Hadn't heard of Gitpod. Thanks. I'll check it out.