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That's not to say this is a good idea or not, but I think all the comments asking "Why would anyone switch to this from VSCode" are missing the point.
What is the business model here? No sign of seed funding or anything like that; technical leadership team
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What would you expect from a cloud editor? FYI, Visual Studio Code is an Electron app. And it's very performant.
It's performant because it's sucking your resources dry with a massive memory footprint, which is possible thanks to virtual memory. Doesn't mean it's ideal.
Theia developers: The Eclipse brand in the IDE/code editor world is toxic to many developers; You may want to disassociate Theia from Eclipse if you’re hoping for wide usage or pulling devs away from VS Code.
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?
> Did they try to work with the team at Microsoft to improve VS Code before forking it? As an open source project maintainer, I don't think it's necessary or easy to do that. Project teams and maintainers have different goals and sometimes it's much easier to fork and evolve without stepping on each other's toes. I'd even say that's the strength of open sourcing software under the right license.
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What would you expect from a cloud editor? FYI, Visual Studio Code is an Electron app. And it's very performant.
It's performant because it's sucking your resources dry with a massive memory footprint, which is possible thanks to virtual memory. Doesn't mean it's ideal.
I've used Eclipse on and off and always found it to be a bit clunky. Unhelpful error messages coming from the fifty layers of abstraction you did not know about before. Back in the days, I always preferred netbeans - it was just more of a product, less of an exercise in object-oriented abstractionism. Today, I am a happy user of vim (and vscode, if I need to) - I left behind the heaps of design patterns, thankfully.…
Theia developers: The Eclipse brand in the IDE/code editor world is toxic to many developers; You may want to disassociate Theia from Eclipse if you’re hoping for wide usage or pulling devs away from VS Code.
Genuinely curious here, how can an IDE be toxic? I haven't heard any such thing before.
Not saying that is or isn't the case wrt Eclipse.
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?