Comment by skissane

> dropping self-hosted support was a very sensible move. They probably didn't want to spend resources on PC hardware support, particularly for laptops.

Self-hosting support doesn’t require PC hardware support. You totally can run your toolchain in a VM (every developer using WSL on Windows is doing it). In the past, I’ve put development environments in Docker containers - it makes it easier for people to get started, and on Windows or macOS that’s a VM too.

Making a system self-hosting is exposing it to a broader range of use cases which can help shake out bugs, limitations and performance issues which other use cases don’t. Even if you don’t strictly need it, I still think it is a good idea to maintain that support (even use it in your CI) unless doing so becomes unjustifiably expensive.