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Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by neysofu »

shoplup2020 wrote: post #27
Noxmiles wrote: post #22

Is there an advantage VS Code? Any reason why a programmer should switch to Theia if using vscode before? I found on these 3 differences vs vscode on the website, but for a Desktop programmer I see in these differences no reason to change. "The most significant differences are: Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for way more customizations, Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud, a…

VS Code is not an IDE. It's a Chromium notepad with a file browser attached.

Quite the understatement, I would say.

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by AzzieElbab »

shoplup2020 wrote: post #27
Noxmiles wrote: post #22

Is there an advantage VS Code? Any reason why a programmer should switch to Theia if using vscode before? I found on these 3 differences vs vscode on the website, but for a Desktop programmer I see in these differences no reason to change. "The most significant differences are: Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for way more customizations, Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud, a…

VS Code is not an IDE. It's a Chromium notepad with a file browser attached.

Forgetting language servers?

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by 112 »

shoplup2020 wrote: post #27
Noxmiles wrote: post #22

Is there an advantage VS Code? Any reason why a programmer should switch to Theia if using vscode before? I found on these 3 differences vs vscode on the website, but for a Desktop programmer I see in these differences no reason to change. "The most significant differences are: Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for way more customizations, Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud, a…

VS Code is not an IDE. It's a Chromium notepad with a file browser attached.

Isn't Theia based on Monaco as well?

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by leotaku »

shoplup2020 wrote: post #27
Noxmiles wrote: post #22

Is there an advantage VS Code? Any reason why a programmer should switch to Theia if using vscode before? I found on these 3 differences vs vscode on the website, but for a Desktop programmer I see in these differences no reason to change. "The most significant differences are: Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for way more customizations, Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud, a…

VS Code is not an IDE. It's a Chromium notepad with a file browser attached.

> VS Code is not an IDE. It's an IDE with an implementation I personally dislike.

Isn't that pretty much what you are saying?

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by blumomo »

GordonS wrote: post #16
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.

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.

I have no problems with Electron, it enables many good products. I for my part however moved from VSCode to (Neo)Vim because VSCode made my maxed out 2017 Macbook Pro scream (the fan) and super slow (pytest taking significantly longer in the integrated terminal). I couldn't be more happier for this move. Thanks to VSCode!

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by jhasse »

bb101 wrote: post #18

Contributors 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?

"Hey Microsoft, we're trying to improve VS Code by moving it over to a not-for-profit corporation not under your control and completly removing the Visual Studio brand. What do you think?"

Re: Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

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Post by veidr »

shoplup2020 wrote: post #27
Noxmiles wrote: post #22

Is there an advantage VS Code? Any reason why a programmer should switch to Theia if using vscode before? I found on these 3 differences vs vscode on the website, but for a Desktop programmer I see in these differences no reason to change. "The most significant differences are: Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for way more customizations, Theia is designed from the ground to run on Desktop and Cloud, a…

VS Code is not an IDE. It's a Chromium notepad with a file browser attached.

You are being correctly downvoted because your statement has no purpose other than snark, and is inaccurate by any reasonable standard.

With a graphical debugger, built-in terminal, rich extension architecture, the ability to compile and run programs, git integration, language server infrastructures — and yes, a file browser, a reasonable argument can be made that VS Code is an "IDE".

And it is indisputably more similar to IDEs like IntelliJ, Eclipse, or Xcode than it is to Notepad.

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