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Re: GitHub Codespaces

#21

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…

The WSL integration is a pretty good result of that effort too.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#22
I wonder if it's usable from an iPad. I haven't tried an online ide before, but if it works well it could be a great mobile development tool.

It would be awesome if this could be setup as a backend for vim as well. Given how well Coc.vim integrates with VSCode tooling, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#23
post #9

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. S…

> It's sad to see GitHub moving slowly into spreading itself too thin

People have been saying this every time GitHub has added a feature that wasn't SCM. How is this time any different?

> I think GitHub becoming SourceForgeV2 is closer than people think. It's bound to happen at one point.

How do you possibly jump from Codespaces to SourceForgeV2, and somehow proclaim it as certainty?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#24

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…

I wish the vscode remote dev functionality didn't require a binary server/remote side component. I have a bunch of users who want to use it, but it's not compatible with the system libraries on our servers and dev environments.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#25
post #17

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

Two years, tops, then it'll be unusable.

Three years, and we'll have a version control ribbon to replace all pre-existing UI elements.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#26
post #9

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. S…

> instead of just improving the platform they have. They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

Aren't they in the category of "improving the platform they have"? What exactly do you want Github to be improved then?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#27
post #9

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. S…

By this logic, Apple should have stuck to Macs and never created the iPhone..

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#29
post #17

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

Two years, tops, then it'll be unusable.

I tend to agree, it's quite crazy what they are trying to pull off technically. It's hard to imagine how all these features will not impact the service. Also it's probably just bleeding money... millions of dollars on CodeScan alone.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

#30
post #9

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. S…

I'm not sure it's bound to happen. They're owned by a trillion dollar company and Github is a super important tool in their overall developer strategy.
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