What is the benefit of installing plutus playground locally?

Question

In these instructions for working through the plutus pioneer program, it suggests installing the playground locally: https://tutorials.cardanoacademy.io/plutus-pioneer-program/setting-up-plutus-playground/starting-plutus-playground

However, the end result is to then just use the same web gui but on your localhost instead of running it on: https://playground.plutus.iohkdev.io/

So, are those docs just outdated or is there some advantage to running it locally?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Plutus playground deployed on playground.plutus.iohkdev.io is often out of date and might contain bugs that are already fixed in upstream.