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Re: Web-based editor

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Post by tehbeard »

raxxorrax wrote: post #36
azalemeth wrote: post #14

Am I alone in not jumping on the Visual Studio [Code] bandwagon? Other online editors have had "vim modes" for ages (e.g. Overleaf) and frankly I'm unlikely to write a chonking great script or project in a browser on Github -- a minor modification is much more likely. VS Code's codebase is huge . Will Github allow people to use other $EDITORs? (Yes, I'm aware this makes me sound like an old man!)

VSCode is/was a neat editor, but I fear it is slowly morphing to become an overloaded mess. It was so sleek and lightweight at first it was really a pleasure to use. But performance and bugs seem to increase, even if you don't use many or any plugins at all.

I'm curious to know what sort of dev work you do with vscode, it still feels rather snappy to me with ~40 extensions, but perhaps using it for other languages is more of a problem?

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by kalium-xyz »

goto11 wrote: post #56
throwaway47292 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha maybe Christopher Domas knows :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g [x86 god mode] but there is a difference between knowing vaguely how internal combustion engine works versus treating your car as a magic box from the future. (which of course now most cars are, you can not even disable the tire pressure alert after you pump your tires without going to the service shop) I fear that nobody will even teac…

https://nandgame.com is a great introduction to such stuff. But that is just a single layer. The problem with computing is not that the individual layers are difficult to understand, is it the sheer amount of layers. I follow the rule of thumb that you should understand the layer you are working at, and one layer below. Understanding all they layers is great, but will take you a lifetime.

Nandgame is awesome. really like the new levels. Adding the relay level made it more grounded in reality and the maze is fun.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by adevx »

If you don't want to tie in with GitHub, there is also a vscode browser version called "code server"

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

I've been using it for the last couple of weeks on a development VPS and really love it. I'm considering moving my dev environment over to the server and just open a browser to do all the work.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by moogly »

azalemeth wrote: post #14

Am I alone in not jumping on the Visual Studio [Code] bandwagon? Other online editors have had "vim modes" for ages (e.g. Overleaf) and frankly I'm unlikely to write a chonking great script or project in a browser on Github -- a minor modification is much more likely. VS Code's codebase is huge . Will Github allow people to use other $EDITORs? (Yes, I'm aware this makes me sound like an old man!)

No, even though I like this feature and use it, I normally don't use VSCode other than as a text editor for random stuff.

My main drivers are IntelliJ products (WebStorm, Rider, CLion, DataGrip...).

VSCode is just too sluggish for me.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by maple3142 »

divan wrote: post #27
zz865 wrote: post #2

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

If you think about it, browser is just an OS for the apps that have crappiest stack (typesetting engine from 80s and, well, javascript), weird window manager (full-window tabs), sandbox for everything (including TCP/UDP calls) and no apps distribution process whatsoever – you download app each time you want to use it. Why people are excited about this OS, I don't know :)

> sandbox for everything

IMO, This is the best thing about browser as an OS. You can run untrusted apps and know that it couldn't steal your ssh keys or other things without your consent, similar to iOS and Android.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by debarshri »

throwaway47292 wrote: post #55
debarshri wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am pretty much sure engineers from late 70s said the same for young engineers. Same for the engineers from 80s for those in 90s. And the trend continues. I think servers becomes the new processors and the abstraction gets higher and higher. It is the nature of evolution whether you like it or not.

that is of course true but now we are at a day where "Amazon to remove more content that violates rules from cloud service" is on the front of hackernews together with "Visual Studio Code now available as Web based editor for GitHub repos" evolution or not, i will revolt, if i think the path its taking is harmful. (not that i can do much besides teaching my kid to know how computers work haha)

True, I agree with you and you have all the rights to revolt. But let's say you have an opinion, instead of revolting I would say you should push it on the world and let the world decision whether they agree with you or not. What Amazon and Google is doing is, they are enforcing their opinion by luring you into their eco system. That's one way to make the world compliant to your opinions.

Just revolting in your own universe doesn't get the job of changing the course of evolution.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by throwaway47292 »

debarshri wrote: post #66
throwaway47292 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that is of course true but now we are at a day where "Amazon to remove more content that violates rules from cloud service" is on the front of hackernews together with "Visual Studio Code now available as Web based editor for GitHub repos" evolution or not, i will revolt, if i think the path its taking is harmful. (not that i can do much besides teaching my kid to know how computers work haha)

True, I agree with you and you have all the rights to revolt. But let's say you have an opinion, instead of revolting I would say you should push it on the world and let the world decision whether they agree with you or not. What Amazon and Google is doing is, they are enforcing their opinion by luring you into their eco system. That's one way to make the world compliant to your opinions. Just revolting in your own u…

i used revolt to be more dramatic :)

i meant i will take action against the evolution, and one of the things i can do is spend as much time as i can in educating my daughter.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by sidk24 »

tehbeard wrote: post #53
xkgt wrote: post #33

Is this similar to what github1s.com offered?

Yes, but with write access and commiting from the page (vs 1s' readonly approach), as well as some extensions working (or atleast, it filters better than 1s and only shows those that do work).

but for code editing, we have collaborated with gitpod.io :)
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