GitHub Codespaces

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Post by CraftThatBlock » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

GitHub Codespaces
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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by xendipity » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

Ah, this really makes sense with all of the recent work they've done on VSCode's remote development capabilities.

- An early announcement on their focus: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-develo...

- Most (all?) of their recent VSCode updates include improvements to remote development. i.e.: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_44#_remote-developm...

- Facebook partnering and becoming an early, heavy adopter: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/19/faceboo...

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by Signez » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:32 PM UTC

Having some thought about the GitPod folks[0] that provide nearly the same feature set.

I hope we are not witnessing a big sherlocking being done here, but… it really looks like one. :/

[0] https://www.gitpod.io/

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by preya2k » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

Interestingly, it seems that Microsoft hast just renamed its "Visual Studio Online" (which was basically the same as this new product) to "Visual Studio Codespaces". So it seems that they are merging these two products. (See: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-co...)

EDIT: They actually announced the renaming of the product a couple of days ago: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/microsofts-visual-studio-o...

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by marceloabsousa » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

Signez wrote: post #3

Having some thought about the GitPod folks[0] that provide nearly the same feature set. I hope we are not witnessing a big sherlocking being done here, but… it really looks like one. :/ [0] https://www.gitpod.io/

Yes, I think it is... Gitpod still has gitlab though :)

It's quite crazy what GitHub is doing...

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by taywrobel » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

Signez wrote: post #3

Having some thought about the GitPod folks[0] that provide nearly the same feature set. I hope we are not witnessing a big sherlocking being done here, but… it really looks like one. :/ [0] https://www.gitpod.io/

They already have a blog post up about it - https://www.gitpod.io/blog/github-codespaces/

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by deegles » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

I couldn't find any info on how much memory/vCPU these will have available or if it's configurable, does anyone know?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by PedroBatista » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

Github is getting Microsofted, there were some good things about this in the recent past, but I wonder...

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by diggan » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

So GitHub (Microsoft) continues to venture way beyond just source control and it's directly related areas, into a much more overall "development" strategy, seemingly echoing what GitLab have been doing for a while.

It's sad to see GitHub moving slowly into spreading itself too thin, instead of just improving the platform they have. They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

Seems their core service is still holding up so far, but with all these moves in different directions, I'm getting a bit worried that the SCM and software collaboration part will be left out. I think GitHub becoming SourceForgeV2 is closer than people think. It's bound to happen at one point.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 06, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

deegles wrote: post #7

I couldn't find any info on how much memory/vCPU these will have available or if it's configurable, does anyone know?

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