I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
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Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#12Looks like a complete rip-off of VS Code. They couldn't even bother to use a different color scheme or icons?
VS Code is open source; you're SUPPOSED to rip it off. I'm not sure what your expectations are.
Eclipse is also open source and has been ripped off and repackaged into dozens if not hundreds of specialized IDE's. That's what open source is about.
Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#13I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
Same here! I remember I found it such a pain that the embedded toolchains were mostly exclusively for Windows. I dabbled around with cloud9 IDE for a bit, but it wouldn't fit my workflow.
Nowadays the WSL basically made Windows my all-in-one development environment. My stack is WSL, docker and Jetbrains IDEs (but the latter is just a matter of personal taste). I haven't touched my Linux desktop in over a year.
Personally, for my workflow, I no longer see a benefit in running a cloud IDE. But maybe that for junior or aspiring devs a cloud IDE will make it much more easy to get started.
Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#14I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
That extension is proprietary.
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#15I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
Same here! I remember I found it such a pain that the embedded toolchains were mostly exclusively for Windows. I dabbled around with cloud9 IDE for a bit, but it wouldn't fit my workflow. Nowadays the WSL basically made Windows my all-in-one development environment. My stack is WSL, docker and Jetbrains IDEs (but the latter is just a matter of personal taste). I haven't touched my Linux desktop in over a year. Person…
WSL doesn't have access to USB device (well, you can make it work more or less, but it's a pain). So the remote extension is great in this case.
Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#16"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.
This Electron-bashing is getting rather old - it's possible to write crappy code on any platform.
Yes, some Electron apps are resource hogs, but many are not. VS Code is a perfect example of how Electron can enable development of a performant, cross-platform IDE.
Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#17>Theia is developed under a vendor-neutral Open-Source Foundation.
Eclipse Foundation, IBM. When I was still doing Java the only good thing that ever came out of Eclipse was proberly SWT. And I remember every single Eclipse product they were competing with Sun's default option, and failed to gain much traction.
So while Theia is Vendor-neutral and open source, I think Microsoft is a much better bet on this one.
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#18Contributors and adopters:
Whilst it's healthy to have competition, I'm not sure a rip-off of VS Code is in the spirit of open source. Did they try to work with the team at Microsoft to improve VS Code before forking it?
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#19I'd really loved this a few years ago; but now VS Code's "Remote" extension helps most of my issues. It's just brilliant that I can do e.g. embedded dev on a physical Linux box while running the IDE on Windows.
That extension is proprietary.
Sure. I'd by happy to pay for it if it wasn't free.
Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
#20Whilst it's healthy to have competition, I'm not sure a rip-off of VS Code is in the spirit of open source. Did they try to work with the team at Microsoft to improve VS Code before forking it?