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<p>Well, DaaS is going to cross that last barrier.
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of cloud platforms, there is virtually no compile time. You can even forget about your machine, all you need is a keyboard and a screen.</p>
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They offer something that could change the way we see development, the abstraction of your OS, ide and development environment.
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