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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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GitLab is slowly on its way to compete with Microsoft, Google, JetBrains... I hope you guys create your own programming language as well to become a real software company ;-) Good luck!

What are they now if not a "real software company"?

OK. I meant a Tier #1 admired software company ;-) Own language is a must to earn admiration of developers :)

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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I'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…

This is currently being resolved!

Re: GitLab Web IDE

#133

I'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…

This is currently being resolved!

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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> We are planning for an even better experience in the future: one where we can integrate and support more advanced features, such as a live environment to test your code against This. Please. I'm playing with a similar concept for GitHub: https://twitter.com/pomber/status/1003416752146075648

One day, I can toss out all my expensive hardware and do my job with a hi-res Chromebook and steady wifi.

That's the 2018 version of "a magnetized needle and a steady hand"

https://xkcd.com/378/

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Wow, 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 lik…

Honestly I generally don't want to do my entire development on a Web IDE, but I do think it's very useful for a repo hosting site to have editing tools, as I often find myself wanting to fix something quick away from my setup. Web IDEs in general are a great concept though, mostly because developers generally love having their editor customized the way they like it, and from there, having it in the cloud accessible f…

Since Atom and VSCode are Electron-based, how hard would it be to make those run in an actual browser hosted on an actual site?

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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It's a pretty editor, but it's not an IDE. No build tools, no debugging, no navigation, no refactoring, etc.

We are hard at work! Time and iterations are needed. A lot is coming your way, it is a very exciting project!

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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It's a pretty editor, but it's not an IDE. No build tools, no debugging, no navigation, no refactoring, etc.

We are hard at work! Time and iterations are needed. A lot is coming your way, it is a very exciting project!

Keep an eye out at the issue tracker mentioned in the article if you want to be most up to date on development

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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post #17

What 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.

I have several repos of text-file based validators that members of the public contribute to. They don't understand git, so it's handy to be able to edit on the website. Git has a super high learning curve for simple edits...

It's one of the problems we are trying to solve. Git is hard, so a guided experience can prove valuable.

See for more information https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/47307 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/46122 for example in how we are improving this starting with 11.1

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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post #65
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What 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.

We are in the process of using GitLab for managing our design history files (DFHs) for our medical devices. This will make it easier for non-techies to edit product requirements, without deep knowledge of git.

Great to hear this! Please leave any feedback in our issue tracker mentioned in the article!
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