One step closer to Linting as a Service. That'll be next, along with Compilation/Build Systems as a Service. Or more likely part of the whole IDE moving to the cloud.

The pain being solved here is that setting up the right development environment is hard, especially for those still learning to program. Many would be much more productive if we skip this step.

Another prediction: Once the development environment moves to the cloud, it will be tied directly to the deployment to a specific platform, such as Azure if this is offered by GitHub. Then Amazon and Google will have to build their own IDEs in the cloud to compete. We'll no longer be developing locally but in the browser, and it will cost a lot more.