Comment by Brandon on "Why does everyone develop on mac and not a cloud IDE?" | Hashnode

Brandon

Frontend Developer

Jun 10, 2016

Clouds aren't available offline.
Not everyone hosts in the cloud.
Apple is the only hardware which legally runs OSX, therefore if you're ever developing a cross-platform something you need Apple hardware.
Apple is high quality hardware with high quality in-person in-store support and comes with OSX by default.
OSX is a user-friendly nix which helps if you don't know much about nix.
Windows is developer unfriendly unless you're developing Microsoft products.

I could go on but I'm getting bored. Personally I run Linux. I used to run Windows but got tired of how developer unfriendly it was. I debated running OSX but I can't stand Apple's "we know better than you do" stance on software or it's walled garden.

Marcus

Full Stack Developer

Jun 10, 2016

@bmlyon I understand you can't work on the project if you didn't have a connection but you can also download the IDE to your computer and it should sync once you are back online. Presumably, and hosting in the cloud I don't see making a difference since launching from a server is the same as launching from any server unless you are doing some kind of server cluster.

I always thought you could partition to have an OSX on your pc, but I could be wrong and it could be illegal.

The whole reason I use a cloud IDE is to be on linux without making my own partition on my pc or making a VM and having to give it all the right permissions and PATHs.

If you have to download it then I'm confused what you mean by a cloud IDE. If you just mean a local IDE that connects to the cloud, then where does the cloud come in? Do you just mean an editor that works on remote files? If you mean an IDE that lives IN the cloud, then no you cannot run it offline as it inherently requires an online connection at some point.

Cloud servers and local servers can be very different. Not everyone hosts in the cloud and not every cloud is capable of reproducing local server hardware. If you're talking about colocation instead of the cloud then that's something different than the cloud. The cloud typically refers to someone else's hardware.

It is technically possible to partition OSX in a VM or on a PC, but it is against Apple's TOS and technically illegal.

I prefer to run my development environment in a VM so I can take it with me, regardless of internet access.

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