Well, I'll take the blame for this one. I often say this (in a positive light, which I believe is shared by the article) as someone who works at Heroku, and I think I said it to someone else (who had not used Heroku) while in the author's presence; other people might say this as well. The reason I say this is because a lot of people expect a lot of unique APIs or locked-in ways of doing things on Heroku, and it can be quite a while -- if ever -- before they find "heroku run bash" and sort of understand how little magic there is that they have to put in their application.
For some people, it makes the idea of getting on and off the platform less scary. I also happen to like that my local machine models the remote environment in broad strokes quite closely.
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> "Heroku is Just Unix"
Well, I'll take the blame for this one. I often say this (in a positive light, which I believe is shared by the article) as someone who works at Heroku, and I think I said it to someone else (who had not used Heroku) while in the author's presence; other people might say this as well. The reason I say this is because a lot of people expect a lot of unique APIs or locked-in ways of doing things on Heroku, and it can be quite a while -- if ever -- before they find "heroku run bash" and sort of understand how little magic there is that they have to put in their application.
For some people, it makes the idea of getting on and off the platform less scary. I also happen to like that my local machine models the remote environment in broad strokes quite closely.