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Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by egberts1 »

livre wrote: post #22
babuskov wrote: post #20

I'm curious. I know it's great for one-offs, but is anyone actually using VSCode as their main tool when so many native IDEs and text editors are available? I would love to know what's your use case. Maybe I'm missing something big.

I'm using it as my main editor for a Django codebase. It's not my favorite IDE, it's a bit slow too but it's the best I could find for what I do. Also I haven't found any good native IDE that can handle Python, Django, HTML, CSS and JS as well as VSCode. There are IDEs that can do Python (and Django) and others for HTML, CSS and JS but I don't want to be constantly switching between the two. If you know a good IDE th…

Mmm, JetBrain PyCharm/CLion?

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by busymichael »

xrisk wrote: post #11

Why not just use a service like repl.it? Is it just so you can use VSCode?

I have just started playing with repl.it and am enjoying it. repl.it is using a similar IDE to the VSCode fork from the OP.

I am trying to build a small web app using repl.it as my dev environment and deploy on google app engine. The stack is flask/mysql/html5/bootstrap.

I have a workflow where I can commit to a dev branch inside repl.it, push to github and them merge to master. If merge is no-conflict, it uses github actions to deploy to google app engine.

There are trade offs, but I am really enjoying the ability to just start coding by opening a browser and having my full dev environment in a tab. Really fun!

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by echelon »

shp0ngle wrote: post #6

Note that this is not "actual" VSCode, but its fork code-server, that takes VSCode and modifies it to run in a browser. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This package just installs code-server on Google Colab, whatever that is. Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source.

> Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source.

I can see it now: one day all of our engineering work will happen exclusively in the cloud and we'll all be using thin clients.

Just like smart phones, the typical desktop or laptop will become a dumb device. A Chromebook, but worse.

Subscribe to your tools, for the low monthly cost of only... And wait, there's more. You can upgrade your storage and execution time package.

Augh.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by johnisgood »

> modifies it to run in a browser.

The future is truly horrifying. I do not want to run my text editor in my browser. Soon our text editors will be hosted by Google or something, and we will edit files with them online. Ugh. Imagine requiring Internet connection and a browser just to edit a file on your computer! I know I am exaggerating a bit, but jeez, this direction sucks.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by wffurr »

johnisgood wrote: post #34

> modifies it to run in a browser. The future is truly horrifying. I do not want to run my text editor in my browser. Soon our text editors will be hosted by Google or something, and we will edit files with them online. Ugh. Imagine requiring Internet connection and a browser just to edit a file on your computer! I know I am exaggerating a bit, but jeez, this direction sucks.

Too late? That's essentially what Vscode, the most popular text editor for programmers, does.

Nothing stopping you from continuing to use vim, emacs, sublime, etc though.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by ericcumbee »

johnisgood wrote: post #34

> modifies it to run in a browser. The future is truly horrifying. I do not want to run my text editor in my browser. Soon our text editors will be hosted by Google or something, and we will edit files with them online. Ugh. Imagine requiring Internet connection and a browser just to edit a file on your computer! I know I am exaggerating a bit, but jeez, this direction sucks.

Try playing solitaire on windows 10 with out a internet connection.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by wvenable »

johnisgood wrote: post #34

> modifies it to run in a browser. The future is truly horrifying. I do not want to run my text editor in my browser. Soon our text editors will be hosted by Google or something, and we will edit files with them online. Ugh. Imagine requiring Internet connection and a browser just to edit a file on your computer! I know I am exaggerating a bit, but jeez, this direction sucks.

Browsers don't have access to local files so this isn't about editing a file on your computer.

VS Code runs on electron so it is already an editor running in a browser locally without an Internet connection required.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by nwienert »

echelon wrote: post #33
shp0ngle wrote: post #6

Note that this is not "actual" VSCode, but its fork code-server, that takes VSCode and modifies it to run in a browser. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This package just installs code-server on Google Colab, whatever that is. Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source.

> Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source. I can see it now: one day all of our engineering work will happen exclusively in the cloud and we'll all be using thin clients. Just like smart phones, the typical desktop or laptop will become a dumb device. A Chromebook, but worse. Subscribe to your tools, for the low monthly cost of only... An…

Yep. And Google Colab is a Trojan horse. Give away free GPUs for a few years to choke out any competition, guaranteed they start charging for them once they’ve done that.
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