Hasnain says:

This is pretty exciting. I don’t know why this is getting so much hate on the orange site.

I’ll admit I was also a Luddite here and stuck to single, specific customized machines for quite a while - but with FB’s internal version of this I am now a believer. Being able to quickly spin up a working environment in a minute to debug something without context switching from what I was otherwise doing has let me put up a lot of small changes here and there or help people when I normally would have just dropped it and moved on.

“Engineers can spin off new codespaces for parallel workstreams with no overhead. When an environment falls apart—maybe it’s too far behind, or the test data broke something—our engineers can quickly create a new environment and move on with their day.”

Posted on 2021-08-12T05:41:50+0000