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GitHub's editor is useful for simple fixes, (formatting, markdown, typos,) but Codespaces seems extremely useful in building a reproducible dev environment for more complex packages / projects, including build tooling!


Yes but OP was talking about simple fixes in the first place


Even simple fixes often need to be run/tested before a PR can be put up with confidence.


a one minute change isn't ran or tested, almost by definition.


If you could have a fully-functional dev environment with pre-installed dependencies in 10s and the package takes 48 seconds to build and test, then you could.


I'm aware of several places in my team's codebase where you can change a couple of characters and break the entire company if you didn't test the change.


Wrong




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