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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by _ph_ »

mcolyer wrote: post #66
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.

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).

Seems you are about to finally turn the iPad into a good development device :)

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by edaemon »

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.

Considering the desktop install is an Electron app I wouldn't think the two would diverge that much.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by amasad »

Pandabob wrote: post #18

This also seems quite similar to repl.it, which I've been enjoying a lot recently. I wonder if they'll support plugins and importing other VS Code settings to the online editor.

I doubt you'd get the same quick & simple experience you have with Repl.it. This is more replacing your local VSCode, which is not what Repl.it aims to replace.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by kart23 »

Wow this seems pretty sick.

Gitlab has a decent web ide, I think this may be github playing catch up, but I'm hopeful that this competition gets us a better product on both sides.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by dan_quixote »

skrtskrt wrote: post #91
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…

While VS Code is definitely good in general, and first choice for languages like JavaScript, I find it really hard to compare it to JetBrains PyCharm and GoLand (understanding GoLand has no free version). The debugging and refactoring experiences for Go and Python in VSCode feel slow, awkward to set up and configure and just generally tacked-on. I have gotten the PyCharm professional and GoLand licensed through my em…

I've found I love JetBrains IDEs when I'm operating as a one-language power-user. But the last few years I find myself needing to use 2-3 languages in the same day (several more if you include markup "languages"). VSCode has become my editor of choice for local dev and vim for remote dev/debug.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by chadlavi »

This is maybe the most relevant threat to the macbook pro product line I've seen in a while. Seems like I could do everything I need on an iPad with this, without Apple having to give me access to a shell in iOS.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by brndn »

wpietri wrote: post #119
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/

> If I'm not the customer, then I'm the product.

This isn't always true, so it's best to look at it on a case by case basis. One wouldn't suggest that Typescript coders are a product of MS.

So far, they don't seem to be treating vscode users like the product. I think they're are building out great free tooling to entice users to use their other paid services like Azure.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by jankeromnes »

ianwalter wrote: post #116

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 Stu…

> Gitpod looked nice but the fact that you can only customize the editor per-repository doesn't make sense to me.

Gitpod also has user-specific Preferences, and even user-specific VS Code extensions. (Usually customization places have a "Workspace" tab and a "User" tab.)

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by abrowne »

sandstrom wrote: post #34
kick wrote: post #14

I can only imagine how the people at GitHub paid to work on Atom are feeling right now. Microsoft hasn't been kind to them!

The people at Github that used to be paid to work on Atom may be the ones that built this :)

No, this is based on VS Code's Visual Studio Online: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/30/microsofts-visual-studio-o...
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