First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
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First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
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Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#2The pieces are starting to fall in place for a decent virtual first development experience.
I don't expect my recent laptop purchase, which was a combination of form for comfort, form for clients to see, and perf for working to last more than 3 years. At a $2500 purchase (most expensive damn laptop I've ever got) I'm aware that half that price or less would get everything but the perf.
So if a cloud solution was good enough, I have about $400 a year to spend on it.
It's about $.5 an hour to match perf on EC2, but we should consider:
- I only need the top perf for minutes at a time. A lot of work could be browser based, but browsers cant do the heavy lifting
- I also have a desktop, which I use more than the laptop, is significantly cheaper and higher perf. Its most useful to me if both envs are the same.
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#3> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working
lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle
Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup above; the idea is awesome and Github Codespaces is too but there are just too many limitations and having a real, ever-running Linux vps everywhere, even on your phone is just magic and even when you write strategy papers...
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#4> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
I respect developers who make that work, but the development experience over SSH (vim, etc) is never as good as local development. You can't use vs code. You have to deal with lag delaying keystrokes. If you download a file and want to copy it into your dev environment you need to SCP it over. If you want to test a network service its nontrivial to point your local browser at the remote machine. If you sleep your laptop and open it again, you need to reconnect your SSH sessions. Etc etc.
A lot of these issues can be solved with enough extra work setting everything up - but that completely defeats the point. "no setup, no hassle" is never my experience.
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#5> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
>... no setup...
Wow, that's a neat trick, how do you manage it?
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#6> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
I respect developers who make that work, but the development experience over SSH (vim, etc) is never as good as local development. You can't use vs code. You have to deal with lag delaying keystrokes. If you download a file and want to copy it into your dev environment you need to SCP it over. If you want to test a network service its nontrivial to point your local browser at the remote machine. If you sleep your lap…
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Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#7> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
I respect developers who make that work, but the development experience over SSH (vim, etc) is never as good as local development. You can't use vs code. You have to deal with lag delaying keystrokes. If you download a file and want to copy it into your dev environment you need to SCP it over. If you want to test a network service its nontrivial to point your local browser at the remote machine. If you sleep your lap…
>You can't use vs code
Have I got news for you https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#8> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
I respect developers who make that work, but the development experience over SSH (vim, etc) is never as good as local development. You can't use vs code. You have to deal with lag delaying keystrokes. If you download a file and want to copy it into your dev environment you need to SCP it over. If you want to test a network service its nontrivial to point your local browser at the remote machine. If you sleep your lap…
I guess that's where vscode's remote ssh extension comes into play.
There's things to be said about it being closed source, but it _definitely_ also removes, IMO, the pain points of remote editing.
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#9> as a co-founder who is spending less time as a developer, and more time in meetings, writing emails, strategy papers, [...] this is just amazing [...] I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working lol, just ssh into a $3 vps as dev machine, real Ubuntu, real tmux/(n)vim, no setup, no hassle Edit: to be fair, Cloud9 was my entry drug into remote development bringing me to my setup abov…
>... no setup... Wow, that's a neat trick, how do you manage it?
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click "new vps" at your hoster (60sec), ssh to your new vps, git clone your tmux+nvim config from github (3s), you're ready to go
Re: First Impressions of GitHub Codespaces
#10What are the specs? How much memory, CPU, disk space?
Of course it's in beta so nothing's final, but it would be good to get a sense of order-of-magnitude.
MS Codespaces starts at 4 GB RAM, 2 cores, 64 GB storage.