My main reason would be not having to set up my computer for development. When you're new to an ecosystem it can be super painful to get set up. Example: I use

My main reason would be not having to set up my computer for development. When you're new to an ecosystem it can be super painful to get set up. Example: I use Python a lot, but had never used it with MySQL until yesterday. I had MAMP installed and I just wanted a Python package to run queries. I tried to install MySQL-Python, but it couldn't find mysql_config. So I find it and update my PATH. Then it can't find some files. I google it and it turns out MAMP MySQL doesn't include some parts and I need to install another version of MySQL to make it work. It works now, but the MySQL Workbench export/import feature isn't happy with the MySQL version number. Especially since many open source projects are compiled from source and have many dependencies I'd love an environment that just works.