Microsoft today previewed some new features for its Dev Box coding-machine-as-a-service offering. While Dev Box appears to provide similar services to GitHub Codespaces.

Microsoft Dev Box builds on years of learning and innovation, which started with GitHub Codespaces, by delivering ready-to-code workstations so developers can focus on writing the code only they ...

What's not clear yet is the pricing for GitHub Codespaces, which is currently in a private beta. In May, along with the rebrand from Visual Studio Online, Microsoft reduced the price of VS ...

Also, creating a branch from a commit object often required nearly an hour of bootstrap each time. So GitHub decided to move its 14-year macOS-centric github.com development environment to Codespaces.

GitHub Codespaces gives you a fully-featured cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within GitHub, so you can start contributing to a project right away.” ...

GitHub Codespaces launched in May 2021 and is designed to equip developers with a complete cloud-hosted development environment based on the Microsoft VS Code editor.