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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by design »

dawson wrote: post #38
dmacewen wrote: post #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.

This tweet from GitHub's lead designer would suggest so! https://twitter.com/notdetails/status/1258070699165585410 ... also this tweet from another GitHub product designer https://twitter.com/mschoening/status/1258069269260038144

Hey, the first tweet is mine. Codespaces work pretty great on an iPad. We're going to be making improvements to the experience here as we get to GA but we know it's a scenario everyone is really excited about.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by mkchoi212 »

mcolyer wrote: post #58
mkchoi212 wrote: post #35

What languages does this support? It would be super cool if this supports `xcodebuild` :O

We support all languages that can run within a Linux container, see https://github.com/mcolyer/codespace-containers/blob/master/... for a base example image (I work as the product lead on this).

Awesome! Seems like it's very capable even from launch.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by mikewhy »

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/

Hopefully one day we can get over "sherlocking". When you build your business off of another business, you're still at the mercy of the other business.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by kick »

sneak wrote: post #63
thwarted wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are perpetual reminders all around that Microsoft's only pretending to like f/oss because that's where the developer attention (and thus corporate money) is. There's spyware in all of their open source apps (TypeScript excluded, because they couldn't get away with it there) that you can of course patch out, but you can't get it removed from the project because, free software or not, Microsoft gets to decide wha…

GitHub has always been a proprietary company unconcerned with user freedom.

They actually have a whitepaper that predates acquisition on exactly this:

https://resources.github.com/whitepapers/introduction-to-inn...

The company has always been unethical; Microsoft didn't change that.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by sandGorgon »

This is great - it basically is signalling how Microsoft is thinking about GitHub. I think vscode is on its way to be owned by the GitHub team.

Will the same happen to Azure Devops ?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by saagarjha »

colordrops wrote: post #76
swagonomixxx wrote: post #60

This is pretty epic. VS Code has proven itself to be one of the best (if not the best) and feature-complete editor out there. It's basically an IDE of a ton of languages at this point, and it's completely free. Integrating it with GH is a no-brainer move from Microsoft's standpoint, to increase market share even further with more seamless integration. If they're able to do setup for Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript p…

Let's just hope they don't only maintain this online editor and deprecate the desktop install.

That sounds quite unlikely.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by danso »

PedroBatista wrote: post #8

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

What does "getting Microsofted" mean, especially in the context of the last 10 years?

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by vlunkr »

swagonomixxx wrote: post #60

This is pretty epic. VS Code has proven itself to be one of the best (if not the best) and feature-complete editor out there. It's basically an IDE of a ton of languages at this point, and it's completely free. Integrating it with GH is a no-brainer move from Microsoft's standpoint, to increase market share even further with more seamless integration. If they're able to do setup for Python, Go, Ruby, and JavaScript p…

> if not the best

Them's fightin' words. But on a more serious note, I think 50% is a massive overestimation. We haven't seen pricing. Unless MS is willing to take a huge loss on this there's no way it will be free. We all know the resources required to run a modern web app in development mode. I can certainly see this being useful if you happen to be away from your dev machine, or if you just want to contribute to something without setting up the whole environment, but not as a full-time solution. Especially considering github is known to have outages. You'll really be SOL then.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by saagarjha »

oefrha wrote: post #71
sneak wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are perpetual reminders all around that Microsoft's only pretending to like f/oss because that's where the developer attention (and thus corporate money) is. There's spyware in all of their open source apps (TypeScript excluded, because they couldn't get away with it there) that you can of course patch out, but you can't get it removed from the project because, free software or not, Microsoft gets to decide wha…

> Bet you a dollar the GitHub mobile app that's going to come out pretty soon will also be totally proprietary with no source provided. Stable version already came out a while ago, been using it on my phone. Also, GitHub the website has never been open source and they never pretended it was or was going to be, so no one was holding breath for source code of the mobile app.

I mean, they could have totally released the source and it probably wouldn’t impact their bottom line at all.
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