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Sven, co-founder of Gitpod, here. I've published the message that Johannes, our CEO, shared earlier today with all our colleagues. It provides more details around this decision. ht…

Please note that Arms's and Arduino's editors are not running in browsers (yet), but are downloadable desktop applications.

open-vsx.org only requires login for publishers. Downloading / installing extensions is done anonymously.

Theia is a platform to allow building desktop and browser IDEs, not a product in itself. You can use it through gitpod.io on any GitHub or GitLab project. The strong emphasize on b…

For adopters, i.e. organizations that want to invent something new on top of existing open-source code, there is a huge difference between the VS Code-kind of open-source where the…

We reengineered VS Code without altering the UX too much, because we love it as it is. The problems we solved are: - making it easier to adjust beyond the standard extension model,…

Gitpod is open-source at core. I.e. we made the IDE completely open-source ( https://theia-ide.org ). I didn't know replit is open-source. Can you share a pointer?

The real killer app is not using an IDE in the browser but using disposable, automated dev environments. I've written a blog post about: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/continuous-dev-…

True. The team is heavily aligning for over a month now. Next release will give you the VS Code look & feel.

When we started the Theia project (theia-ide.org), we considered doing a large patch on VS Code as well. But we decided to go down a more sustainable approach by reusing the import…

Cool! We wrapped the VS Code extension in the protocol to support it in gitpod.io. See here https://github.com/theia-ide/go-language-server Would be really awesome to use something…

Did anybody checkout xtend-lang.org? It's for sure better in terms of Java-interoperability and IDE plugins (Eclipse and IntelliJ) And it even has macros!!

From someone who compared MPS with Xtext : "2 days of work in MPS were recreated in 30 min using XText" http://arnon.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DSL-summary.pdf

The second part of this InfoQ article features a getting started on Xtend and Android: http://www.infoq.com/articles/unusual-ways-to-create-a-mobil...

> But I don't think this is the answer. If you debug Scala on Android at least you don't have to make a mental mapping of what > the corresponding Java translation of your function…

Kotlin for instance doesn't support something similar to active annotations aka compile-time macros. This is a very powerful concept. Here's an example of an annotation from the Xt…

Debugging Xtend is straight forward. On a normal JVM you can even switch between generated Java and original Xtend source during debug, depending on what level you would like to st…