Joel Spolsky recently announced on his blog that Fog Creek Software have just launched the public beta of
HyperDev.
HyperDev is going to be the fastest way to bang out code and get it running on the internet. We want to eliminate 100% of the complicated administrative details around getting code up and running on a website. The best way to explain that is with a little tour.
Step one. You go to hyperdev.com.
Boom. Your new website is already running. You have your own private virtual machine (well, really it’s a container but you don’t have to care about that or know what that means) running on the internet at its own, custom URL which you can already give people and they can already go to it and see the simple code we started you out with.
All that happened just because you went to hyperdev.com.
Notice what you DIDN’T do.
- You didn’t make an account.
- You didn’t use Git. Or any version control, really.
- You didn’t deal with name servers.
- You didn’t sign up with a hosting provider.
- You didn’t provision a server.
- You didn’t install an operating system or a LAMP stack or Node or operating systems or anything.
- You didn’t configure the server.
- You didn’t figure out how to integrate and deploy your code.
You just went to hyperdev.com. Try it now!
Be sure to
read the rest of the blog post for more details, especially this important caveat:
Literally every change you make is instantly saved, uploaded to the server, the server is restarted with the new code, and your browser is refreshed, all within half a second.
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“What if I literally type ‘DELETE * FROM USERS’ on my way to typing ‘WHERE id=9283’, do I lose all my user data?”
Erm… yes. Don’t do that. This doesn’t come up that often, to be honest, and we’re going to add the world’s simplest “branch” feature so that optionally you can have a “dev” and “live” branch, but for now, yeah, you’d be surprised at how well this works in practice even though in theory it sounds terrifying.
Announcement blog post here:
http://www.joelonsof...tems/2016/05/30.htmlHyperDev.com 
