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Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Been using it every day at work for 4 years. Never even noticed the name change to "Azure DevOps". Has anyone here ever used an online IDE, for anything other than very small tasks?

At Google it's very common to use the internal web IDE called CIDER.

At Amazon, some people use AWS Cloud 9 as their editor of choice but it's pretty uncommon in my neck of the woods.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Haven't tried it but this seems useful. I know Google has something similar they use a lot internally. I guess one common use case for this is when you have code you need to run on a remote server but you want a nice development experience like you're developing locally (sometimes I see developers open an IDE on a remote server which is too slow). A better solution is working locally and having all changes sync autom…

Sounds similar to the "deployments" functionality in JetBrains IDEs.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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The articles mentions this at the end, but Coder offers a remote VS Code environment: https://coder.com/ https://github.com/cdr/code-server Anyone have experience with it?

I've been using it on one of my personal servers and it's been a great experience so far. Especially paired with sshcode, which syncs your local vscode configuration with the remote server and runs it inside a borderless chrome window: https://github.com/cdr/sshcode

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Haven't tried it but this seems useful. I know Google has something similar they use a lot internally. I guess one common use case for this is when you have code you need to run on a remote server but you want a nice development experience like you're developing locally (sometimes I see developers open an IDE on a remote server which is too slow). A better solution is working locally and having all changes sync autom…

Yes emacs does it using Tramp, syncing remote files while editing locally, but I thought Eclipse also supported it.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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post #13

The articles mentions this at the end, but Coder offers a remote VS Code environment: https://coder.com/ https://github.com/cdr/code-server Anyone have experience with it?

I use it in our lab, and it works very well. However, there's no multi-user support. So anyone who connects to the server gets served the editor with the same workspace.

That being said, I think they have the multi-user support in the roadmap.

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