Remote-Powered Developer Tools

Post by meysholdt » Mon, May 06, 2019, 8:28 PM UTC

Vinnl wrote: post #61

Titanous wrote: post #57

It's worth noting that the new VS Code Remote Development extensions are not open source, which means that it is impossible for the community to fix bugs, and add new platforms/environments/features, or see the code that's running in their environment without reverse engineering. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...

Thanks for pointing that out. (Also odd formulation of the question: "Why aren't the open soure? - We made the decision to keep them closed source." The actual answer is to the next question: "we may provide premium developer services.")

Post by meysholdt » Mon, May 06, 2019, 8:38 PM UTC

core-questions wrote: post #63

lostintangent wrote: post #45

Hey all! I’m the author of this post, and lead the PM team at Microsoft behind IntelliCode, Live Share, and the cloud-based remote development capabilities described in this article. We’re looking forward to working with developers, and learning how to further support teams who are looking to up-level their productivity and embrace further workplace flexibility (yay for remote development!). In the meantime, feel fre…

What's the situations going to be like for third-party addons for this? My company has need of an online IDE for our end users to code against, and obviously writing our own seems like too gargantuan of a task that will likely result in sub-par outcomes. Could we instead make some kind of first-class addon for VS Code Online, and funnel users into setting that up instead?

Post by daviding » Mon, May 06, 2019, 8:54 PM UTC

mattbierner wrote: post #112

daviding wrote: post #110

On trying to connect my Win10 VSCode Insiders build using this to a MacOS it says "Can't connect to mac: unreachable or not Linux x86_64 (Darwin x86_64)". Is this limited to only Linux and MacOS being the host via OpenSSH here?

Yes, at the moment only Linux is supported for the server. But please upvote the relevant issues so we know which other platforms people are most interested in running Code server on: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/24

Post by robocat » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

sandis wrote: post #101

tiffanyh wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>“running on an iPad Pro” I was under the impression that browser based IDE won’t work on iOS because safari (or maybe UIkit) doesn’t support some type of controls. I can’t find the mention but I read that here at HN not long ago

Afaik the WebKit fix is in, but hasn't shipped in iOS yet (as of 12.2) https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149054

Post by sytse » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:21 PM UTC

noname120 wrote: post #105

This is an interesting development since there is already a multitude of online IDE's that are based on Visual Studio Code: - StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/ - Theia: https://www.theia-ide.org/ - Coder: https://coder.com/ Overall, this is a prime example of one of the synergies that Microsoft was able to create from the GitHub acquisition which was the missing puzzle piece. Microsoft now has control over a comple…