Ioannis Canellos iocanel

Prologue

Lately I keep hearing about “how much software development has changed over the last half of the decade”. This usually refers to the adoption of containers, cloud etc. I would like to focus on an other factor of the change and that is the plethora of development related systems and services.

So its typical for a team to have:

• version control
• code review systems
• code analysis systems
• project management
• issue trackers
• continuous integration
• chat / messaging

Add email to that and you realize that most of development related tasks now days take place in the browser. Unfortunately, browsers by nature are unaware of the content they serve, so its not trivial to automate your workflow in the browser. So, if the browser is not going to play the role of ‘Swiss army knife’ for development then what?