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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by mcolyer »

dvtrn wrote: post #98
mcolyer wrote: post #66

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That's correct it's usable from an iPad during the beta. There are a few known issues but we're planning on addressing those so that we can support this workflow (I work as the product lead on Codespaces).

Super excited to hear this, I had the exact same question reading the page. Any chance you'd be willing to slip us a peak on when we could reasonably (even a Q x ballpark) on when Beta begins?

The beta signup list is available today https://github.com/features/codespaces and we'll add people in the order they sign up.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by dijit »

Oh, WOW! I was looking for something just like this recently.

I tried setting up Theia (https://theia-ide.org) on windows and it was definitely not ready for major use.

I didn't find anything else that fit the bill either, I hear something like this exists internally at google though.

I'm not typically a huge fan of Github (I'm sure that's a controversial opinion) but this is definitely something I'm going to check out.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by mcolyer »

saagarjha wrote: post #94
mcolyer wrote: post #66

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That's correct it's usable from an iPad during the beta. There are a few known issues but we're planning on addressing those so that we can support this workflow (I work as the product lead on Codespaces).

Does it work with the software keyboard? I seem to recall Monaco not really supporting mobile.

I haven't specifically tried it, but I think it would be challenging given how much screen real estate the keyboard takes.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by design »

alberth wrote: post #96
design wrote: post #81

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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.

Is the screenshot of Codedpaces from your iPad or macOS? Because that looks a lot like safari on macOS. https://mobile.twitter.com/notdetails/status/125807069916558...

It's a mockup in macOS safari, but I'll tweet a video of it running on my iPad at some point

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by ianwalter »

I was just looking in to setting up "VS Code in the browser" with gitpod, code-server, and Visual Studio Codespaces last weekend. Gitpod looked nice but the fact that you can only customize the editor per-repository doesn't make sense to me. Looks like GitHub has solved this by using a `dotfiles` repo. code-server looked decent but I would much rather auth / secure the editor through GitHub. I tried to use Visual Studio Codespaces but I find Microsoft's account system and Azure's interface so infuriating. I'm really looking forward to this!

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by meysholdt »

searchableguy wrote: post #99
saagarjha wrote: post #87

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That sounds quite unlikely.

Doesn't to me (they might not deprecate it but they will simply stop putting resources into it at which point it turns into maintenance mode). As another posted pointed out the Facebook links, companies would love remote IDE tooling hosted on their premise so it can be an easy way to remove overhead on onboarding and tighten security more. For monorepos, it might work pretty well.

> would love remote IDE tooling hosted on their premise so

sounds exactly like what Gitpod self-hosted is for: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-self-hosted-0.4.0/

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by jankeromnes »

frank2 wrote: post #78
jankeromnes wrote: post #49

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FYI gitpod.io offers 16 CPU / 60 GB RAM, and works great on Chromebooks & iPads.

>gitpod.io . . . works great on . . . iPads gitpod.io is tightly integrated with the Monaco editor; is it not? I ask because the top of https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/ says, "The Monaco editor is not supported in mobile browsers or mobile web frameworks". Has Microsoft changed their policy and simply neglected to change the passage I just quoted?

You're right, Gitpod uses Theia, which uses Monaco, which doesn't officially support mobile browsers.

However, we do extensive testing of Gitpod and Theia on mobile devices, and work around bugs or contribute fixes upstream to Monaco when possible.

Gitpod/Theia users now report that the iPad experience is great, and we continue to push forward on improving it.

On the other hand, VS Codespaces blocks you with a "This browser is not supported" error page when you're not using Chrome. (Even pre-Chromium Edge is unsupported.) But you absolutely need Safari support to work on iPad (all browsers there are basically just Safari skins).

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by wpietri »

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…

Free is a huge minus in my book. If I'm not the customer, then I'm the product. I'll happily keep paying for my JetBrains all-product license: https://www.jetbrains.com/all/

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by searchableguy »

meysholdt wrote: post #117
searchableguy wrote: post #99

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Doesn't to me (they might not deprecate it but they will simply stop putting resources into it at which point it turns into maintenance mode). As another posted pointed out the Facebook links, companies would love remote IDE tooling hosted on their premise so it can be an easy way to remove overhead on onboarding and tighten security more. For monorepos, it might work pretty well.

> would love remote IDE tooling hosted on their premise so sounds exactly like what Gitpod self-hosted is for: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-self-hosted-0.4.0/

Yeah but does it come with github or azure enterprise package?

No.

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