Gitlab is an awesome data center load tester, the only thing that's missing is a good github alternative. ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978048
How long until the email client is also part of Gitlab?
GitLab Web IDE
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Re: GitLab Web IDE
#12If I were them I might try to integrate with some existing open source plugin system (Atom or VSCode?) to get more supported languages for free.
If it's Monaco then they're already doing that, as that's the core piece of VSCode.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#13It's a pretty editor, but it's not an IDE. No build tools, no debugging, no navigation, no refactoring, etc.
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#14I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user?
(1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot
(2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image.
(3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text MOVE while I'm reading it as the screenshots animate back to their original positions.
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#15So this is like Cloud9?
Vaguely - think GitHub file editing, but far more powerful. Some differences would include:
* No terminal
* No development environment to speak of, either (e.g. no libraries or binaries installed)
The post identifies that this was developed as a way to include multiple file edits in one commit. GitHub, by contrast, applies a commit per file edit, so if you want to change three files, you would open each file separately and each edit/save would become a separate commit.
I do think that this nudges GitLab as a platform a little closer to being like Cloud9 though!
Re: GitLab Web IDE
#16But does it have Vim keybindings?
Asking the important questions.
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#17What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.
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#18Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: https://repl.it, https://glitch.me, and now GitLab (and I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow).
Cloud9's acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there's still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports like Cloud9 did.
Personally I'm most optimistic for https://repl.it. They already have a core userbase in high school classrooms and have been adding a ton of support for serverside applications to make it more appealing outside of the classroom.
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#19I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user? (1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot (2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image. (3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text…
It’s really bad on mobile, it literally just barely moves the screen shots around. I just have to view the image directly to get what I wanted out of it.
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#20If multiple users could use the "IDE" at the same time I could move entirely off of GSuite. Right now being able to edit the occasional code block with 4 people watching is worth GDocs.