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Re: Web-based editor

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Post by whateveracct »

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!)

Nah you aren't. I have tried it multiple times and it's just such a worse experience than emacs for me I won't waste my time.

IDEA is the same way. Turns out coding isn't about text input after all.

Re: Web-based editor

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moogly wrote: post #52

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…

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Re: Web-based editor

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Post by donmcronald »

whateveracct wrote: post #271
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!)

Nah you aren't. I have tried it multiple times and it's just such a worse experience than emacs for me I won't waste my time. IDEA is the same way. Turns out coding isn't about text input after all.

I used to use VSCode as a quick editor for small things, but the bloat seems to be accelerating. I really like Jetbrains editors (and pay for them). My biggest complaint about both is how they're so in your face about every little feature. I see you have this thing, should I enable feature X for you? It looks like you're editing a Docker file. Should I enable Docker integration.

I guess I'm a pair programmer with Clippy now :-(

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by Tyriar »

reificator wrote: post #265
philipswood wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems like it should not be very difficult to do for yourself if motivated. xterm.js [1] is pretty good. Something like gotty [2] and a engine for getting a container with a git checkout started should be relatively straight forward. [1]: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/ [2]: https://github.com/yudai/gotty

I'm waiting for version 8 of xterm.js where they introduce a minimal version that uses less resources. Then we'll find out who's really behind the project... xterm-min-8.js

As the maintainer of xterm.js I have no idea what you're suggesting? FWIW we just shipped xterm-headless which is literally a minimal version that uses less resources.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by subsection1h »

kumarvvr wrote: post #255
azalemeth wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm someone who also writes code for a living. Linux and MacOS are my primary OSes (in that order). I've used Windows, but only sparingly. I've written a lot of C, a lot of scripting languages, and a bit of C++. I've used many IDEs. For me, the "command line" workflow of Makefiles, vim & gdb are really, well, great. When I was a graduate student, I did a lot of pair-programming with a vim wizard who showed me just ho…

> VS feels like a big, bloated IDE where you have to memorise the location of 4e6 different GUI positions This one sentence convinces me that you have not used VSCode in any meaningful way. I ditched GUI items for getting stuff done long time ago with VSCode. I just bring up the command palette and type away. Its insanely great.

> I ditched GUI items

When I tried VS Code, it wasn't even possible to hide the tabs. As a long-time user of Emacs and highly-configurable X window managers, the inability to remove useless graphical elements like tabs made VS Code unbearable.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by ren_engineer »

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!)

I'm more skeptical of MS/Github taking over the entire developer ecosystem. Have to admire their execution of this strategy so far

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by reificator »

Tyriar wrote: post #275
reificator wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm waiting for version 8 of xterm.js where they introduce a minimal version that uses less resources. Then we'll find out who's really behind the project... xterm-min-8.js

As the maintainer of xterm.js I have no idea what you're suggesting? FWIW we just shipped xterm-headless which is literally a minimal version that uses less resources.

Sorry bad joke about how the name "xterm" sounds like the beginning of the word "exterminate", implying it was made by Daleks from Doctor Who.

I forgot HN is not the place for humor, and I did not intend to cast any actual aspersions toward anyone maintaining cool projects.

Re: Web-based editor

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Post by xtat »

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.

Way scarier is a world of native code and appstores
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