Without internet connection, most modern development grinds to a halt pretty quickly in any case. Github won't work. All those dependencies your build needs will no longer download. That issue tracker that tells you what you need to do is no longer reachable, and forget about copy pasting from Stackoverflow. Etc.

There are things you can still do offline of course. But it gets inconvenient pretty quickly. There's not a whole lot of offline development happening anymore.

So, in the rare case the connection drops, you have a coffee break, and then you reconnect. If that's a regular thing in your life, change your internet provider or networking equipment.

There are plenty of locations where internet connections constantly breaks, or the network equipment is just so poor that everyone's connections drop/connect once a day or so. Or that the latency is so high that most servers drops your connection before they even gave you a chance to connect. That's "offline" as well even though I'm not actually offline, my connection is just really slow.

But the mindset you have explains a lot about why most software doesn't well in environments like that, people simply believe conditions like that don't exists so why should the server allow connections that take longer than 3 seconds? "Probably they're spamming us so let's drop the connection instead".

If you have the right setup, all of the issues you're saying are easily worked around (even the "copy paste from Stack Overflow" issue, although I'm not sure if that's a joke or not).

Most software development simply does not happen in those places for that reason. Basically, it's a supply and demand thing. Software developers require decent connectivity and they'll move to where the connectivity is. Or they'll fix a decent connection (using star link or whatever).

I promise you, software development also happens in unbelievable places like South America, Africa and other low connectivity places.

Edit: just came across this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33274186

Seems funny that Stack Overflow would enable offline usage when supposedly no developers have poor connection, they'll simply move to places with amazing networking.

> There's not a whole lot of offline development happening anymore.

luckily that's not the case everywhere.