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Gotta be web-based and only other major one I know of is Atom, which was originally started by GitHub and is also owned by Microsoft now. Don't know if people are still using it much though.
There was also Adobe Brackets, but it was discontinued earlier this month.
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!)
For me the advantage of VSCode is in its approach and how it has differed from other products: - VSCode Remoting is really useful. It doesn’t suffer as much from latency as SSH or display forwarding, and lets you use some local configuration when remoting. Neovim will soon have a feature like this. - Language servers for code intelligence has greatly improved editor support for languages. Up until the introduction an…
The flipside is that MS pouring money into VS Code has tremendously benefited the entire code editor ecosystem, including (especially) FOSS editors that can reuse their language servers.
It looks like this is actually just the editor from Visual Studio Online unless I've missed something. It's great, but if it were really Visual Studio Code that would be awesome and I'd be pleasantly surprised. (The difference being that if it's just the editor it misses out on all the compiler/analysis integrations. If Github were providing Linux containers in the cloud for working on projects - essentially the SSH…
I think what you might want is GitHub Codespaces?: https://github.com/features/codespaces . Was on HN recently too.
And the project never loads.
Edit1: That said I also started development on my own web IDE: http://edit.rupy.se
Edit2: This other URL works: https://github1s.com/tinspin/rupy
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I have never used vim in my life (20 years in dev. including on linux and used linux since the late 90s). Many people talk about vim lately, probably the most I've seen and I'm still not sure why. That said, VSCode is very good. But I don't believe in a web-based IDE and in remote Github repos. That's a recipe for disaster and unescapable vendor lock-in, and in any case it's only an option for web dev., really. Edit:…
How have you avoided vim this long? What did you edit config files with? I guess maybe if you mean you just used vi instead
I personally tend to install micro, or use nano if that's not possible.
I've been using this for a while. Very, very, very handy for - Just exploring some code. - Quickly pull up as reference code w/ decent navigation without having to checkout locally or navigate forward/back in the source tree in GitHub. - When reviewing PRs and wanting to check out some surrounding code that is not part of the actual PR. - If you want to quickly commit something really small and trivial in master/a br…
Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.
Why is it scary?
> We were slaves to the mainframe! he said. Dumb terminals! That's all we had. We were powerless under the big machine's unyielding central control. Then we escaped to the personal computer, autonomous, powerful. Then networks. The PC was soon rendered to be nothing but a "thin client," just a browser with very little software residing on our personal machines, the code being on network servers, which are under the control of administrators. Now to the web, nothing but a thin, thin browser for us. All the intelligence out there, on the net, our machines having become dumb terminals again.
This is in contrast to WebContainers which launched a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223012) and enables VS Code to run entirely in-browser (including terminal commands) using a WebAssembly based operating system.
Source: worked on WebContainer and am CEO of StackBlitz
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I think what you might want is GitHub Codespaces?: https://github.com/features/codespaces . Was on HN recently too.
Hmm. $0.18 per hour for 4GB of RAM is a rather steep. A c6g.large on AWS would run you less than a half of that, for the same number of CPUs and memory. A quarter if you're happy to use spot instances. Might be neat to have an OSS tool that spins up an EC2 (or Azure or GCP) instance running Code-Server[1] (VS Code running natively on the server, but presenting the UI in the browser), with a given git repo and credent…
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v "${PWD}:/workspace" mltooling/ml-workspace
docker run --name=cocalc -d -v ~/cocalc:/projects -p 443:443 sagemathinc/cocalcIt seems we are moving to a world of magic, where developers will be alchemists, and only a handful of people will understand "physics" or "chemistry" and know what is actually going on in the cloud, serverless, fileless, functionless development. Since google translate and google maps, I always ask myself, what is the real price for this very convenient and engaging product.
Computers are devices for abstracting, always have been.
If we had to understand everything down to do anything, we'd still be at the punchcard stage of computing, and not doing anything more sophisticated than was done then.