In 2019-2022, the cloud solutions market was worth more than $200 billion. And with most employees moving to remote work, the cloud has become an even more important tool for developers – more cloud-based collaborative development environments are emerging. The Visual Studio Codespaces cloud development environment, in particular, allows developers to stay productive and work from anywhere on Earth.

Remote collaboration is becoming easier, with sessions that can be accessed directly from a browser. Software developers use the same code space – both for short-term tasks and for creating new features.

In turn, cloud environments give developers a number of benefits:

• The time it takes to connect to new projects or tasks is reduced.
• The performance of cloud-based development environments grows, often even better than on-premises environments.
• It’s quick and easy to switch between a browser-based editor and a cloud-based environment (e.g., Visual Studio Code).
• The cost of cloud-based development solutions goes down. For example, in Visual Studio Codespaces, the developer only pays for the time and resources he uses, that is, as long as he is active and using Azure computing power.
• Code sharing – no matter what application the developer creates, what language he or she programs in or what operating system he or she uses, access to the project can be granted to any of his or her colleagues, and no one will have to give up their favorite tools.