When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this.

According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: These are pretty significant price drops, down from $0.45 per hour to $0.17 for a machine with 4 cores and 8 GB of memory, for example (you also incur some relatively minor storage costs of $0.0088 for using a 64 GB SDD, too).Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The new pricing will go into effect on May 19, the first day of Microsoft’s (virtual) Build developer conference. Need to quickly prototype a new feature or perform some short-term tasks (like reviewing pull requests)? Create a Codespace! Your Codespaces are simply the most productive place to code.” (It’s true what they say, naming is hard!) Do you want a great experience working on your long-term project? Do it in a Codespace. “To better align with that sentiment, and the true value of the service, we’re renaming Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Codespaces. In today’s announcement, Microsoft’s Nik Molnar points out that the company learned that most developers who used Visual Studio Online thought of it as being much more than simply an editor in the browser. It’s also dropping the price of the service by more than 50% and giving developers the option to run it on relatively low-performance virtual machines that will start at $0.08 per hour. Today, the company announced that it is changing the name of this service to Visual Studio Codespaces. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives in your browser.

About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project.

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