GitHub Codespaces Can Save Dev Time, Resources

• GitHub Codespaces hosts development environments that can be accessed from Visual Studio Code.
• The service could save time and reduce local hardware requirements, especially for developers who work on multiple projects for different platforms.
• The service is generally available for certain enterprise customers, while some components remain in preview.

GitHub Codespaces could improve developers’ ability to work on multiple projects, provide assistance on other projects, conduct code reviews, gain access to additional hardware capacity, and experiment with new technologies.

(GitHub Codespaces supplants an earlier preview offering called Visual Studio Codespaces, which in turn was originally called Visual Studio Online.)

The Trouble with Development Environments

Software solution development requires environments that have technology dependencies (such as OSs, programming languages, frameworks, and runtimes) installed and configured and tools (such as editors and debuggers) prepared according to the developers’ preferences.