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Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#4

Post by soapdog »

kryptiskt wrote: post #2

Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?

It is a IDE toolkit. You're supposed to use it to build your own as can be seen in the "Arduino IDE Pro".

They've used monaco[1] which is the editor part of VS Code for their project but Theia apparently is easier to work on a cloud and customize.

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#5

Post by diggan »

kryptiskt wrote: post #2

Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?

I don't know if it's actually using VS Code as a base, but since VS Code is under a MIT license, I don't think you can say anyone would be able to rip-off VS Code. If they don't include the license from VS Code, you could say they break the licensing, but it'll be hard to argue that a copy/fork of a project with permissive license would be a rip-off.

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#6

Post by [deleted] »

soapdog wrote: post #4
kryptiskt wrote: post #2

Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?

It is a IDE toolkit. You're supposed to use it to build your own as can be seen in the "Arduino IDE Pro". They've used monaco[1] which is the editor part of VS Code for their project but Theia apparently is easier to work on a cloud and customize. [1]: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

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Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#7

Post by lsiunsuex »

"Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud"

Which means it's an Electron app - which means between this and Chrome, it sucks down tons of ram and processing power.

Really hoping Nova from panic.com is as good as it looks / native MacOS app.

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#8

Post by k__ »

kryptiskt wrote: post #2

Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?

They are even advertising their VSCode extension support.

Looks good to me, Cloud9 was rather limited and I missed my VSCode extensions.

Edit: they have their own extension registry, which makes the whole enterprise seem a bit sub-optimal.

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#9

Post by benbristow »

lsiunsuex wrote: post #7

"Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud" Which means it's an Electron app - which means between this and Chrome, it sucks down tons of ram and processing power. Really hoping Nova from panic.com is as good as it looks / native MacOS app.

What would you expect from a cloud editor?

FYI, Visual Studio Code is an Electron app. And it's very performant.

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

#10

Post by kryptiskt »

diggan wrote: post #5
kryptiskt wrote: post #2

Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?

I don't know if it's actually using VS Code as a base, but since VS Code is under a MIT license, I don't think you can say anyone would be able to rip-off VS Code. If they don't include the license from VS Code, you could say they break the licensing, but it'll be hard to argue that a copy/fork of a project with permissive license would be a rip-off.

I don't mean to say that they are doing anything illegal or unethical. It just looks cheap to post a screenshot that looks like pixel-perfect copy of VS Code. Don't these people have a vision?
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