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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by plexicle »

ivalm wrote: post #31
xendipity wrote: post #2

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…

Their remote development capability is amazing and was quite a game changer for me. Having a nice ide where all of the plugins work on a remote server as if everything is local is so nice!

The SSH plugin is insanely good. I can dev from a Windows machine and SSH into my Mac and do React Native (native) iOS modules. Even my zsh shell acts as if it's local. Running `pod install` from Windows. It's seemless.

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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palerdot wrote: post #247
eloff wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay for the full JetBrains subscription. While I still use vscode for typescript and rust, I use JetBrains for anything else. It's one of those no brainer purchases that pays for itself within a month. Programmers create enormous value. If you can get even small single digit percentage improvements by leveraging better tooling, it pays for itself almost right away. I estimate conservatively I produce $500,000 in va…

> I estimate conservatively I produce $500,000 in value a year Do you actually earn this amount per year? Or, is this just a projection of what you think the value of code you write is?

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Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by AsyncAwait »

arodyginc wrote: post #104
skrtskrt wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Even for C# VSCode is way less useful than VisualStudio, which also has a free version (though doesn't run on Linux)

JetBrains has Rider on Linux for C# and while not free, if you're already paying for other JetBrains IDE's, as many devs do, it's included. I just think there's still not much reason to do C# on Linux over say Kotlin if you want a huge ecosystem.

I'd consider it if they come out with a cross-platform GUI toolkit for .NET Core/

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by sparky_ »

Must be fun for @sytse to watch these GitHub announcements every year, where they consistently release the same thing GitLab rolled out two years prior.

Codespaces -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/

Insights -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/insights/

GH Actions -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

etc

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by actuator »

palerdot wrote: post #247
eloff wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay for the full JetBrains subscription. While I still use vscode for typescript and rust, I use JetBrains for anything else. It's one of those no brainer purchases that pays for itself within a month. Programmers create enormous value. If you can get even small single digit percentage improvements by leveraging better tooling, it pays for itself almost right away. I estimate conservatively I produce $500,000 in va…

> I estimate conservatively I produce $500,000 in value a year Do you actually earn this amount per year? Or, is this just a projection of what you think the value of code you write is?

I think he was talking about the value he generates, so possibly something like revenue/profit per employee kind of thing. For example, FB and Google make more than $1M revenue per employee. You can go more granular and look at the impact of your team or yourself as well.

But can be his comp as well, these are not unheard[1] of numbers.

[1] https://levels.fyi

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by bengalister »

I understand that many companies will be seduced by the offering and what could come next:

* No more source code on developers machine so better for security.

* No more development environment to setup and all the devs sharing the exact same settings: simplified onboarding of devs.

* No need for costly developers machines.

* No more infra to setup to host the source code repository, the CI/CD workflows (even if many companies already moved that to the cloud).

But as a developer I am worried what could also come next:

* dashboards for managers with all sort of stats on developers: code quality with arbitrary rules, productivity (number of lines of codes), number of stars from other developers, etc.

* being locked-in with the Microsoft toolchain all along from source code edition to deployment in Azure. For instance currently I chose to do my NodeJs backend development on vim with coc-vim and found it to be much lighter than Vscode (I have a very old developers machine)

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by steveklabnik »

Avi-D-coder wrote: post #208

This is great. We all knew it was coming, but I wish they hadn't axed xray. Has vscode performance improved in recent history? Are there any plans to replace hot code paths with Rust or wasm? Has modal editing improved? I'm not against using vscode, but even with codespaces it's a hard sell.

(vscode does use ripgrep to power part of their search)

Re: GitHub Codespaces

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Post by tommoor »

sparky_ wrote: post #284

Must be fun for @sytse to watch these GitHub announcements every year, where they consistently release the same thing GitLab rolled out two years prior. Codespaces -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/ Insights -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/insights/ GH Actions -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ etc

I'm sure he'll have his usual blogpost moaning about how Gitlab already has it by end of day.
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