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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by moron4hire »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #135
ehsankia wrote: post #74

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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?

VSCode has been available for editing projects on Azure for quite some time

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by mapl »

madjam002 wrote: post #105
styfle wrote: post #54

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I have been keeping a list[0] of Awesome Online IDEs that you might be interested in. It's difficult to explain the differences between them (in one line of text) so you might have to try it out yourself. [0]: https://github.com/styfle/awesome-online-ide

Nice, you should add TheiaIDE to your list

I really liked it! https://github.com/theia-ide/theia

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by RhodesianHunter »

freehunter wrote: post #114
ukyrgf wrote: post #102

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I'm a c9.io user so my account is still free, but the impression I get from the Amazon acquisition is that you have to run it on an EC2 instance now. That requires some form of setup, doesn't it? And AWS is jargon all the way down, so the entry level is a lot higher than it was before.

Cloud9 is better than other AWS products in that you can click through one wizard that sets up your EC2 instance and provisions the Cloud9 software on it at the same time. The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth, but just getting into Cloud9 can be saved with a bookmark once it's set up, and setting it up is just one wizard. Agreed that it's a higher barrier of entry compared to how simple and…

> The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth

I've heard this enough times to know that it's widely agreed upon, but I've never understood it personally.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by IggleSniggle »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #135
ehsankia wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Check out stackblitz

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

pjmlp wrote: post #123
tootie wrote: post #78

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What would it take to run Electron apps on a Chromebook? Just gimme VS Code and I'm good to go.

The OS is already juggling browser processes, no need to plague it with extra browser runtimes, that is what PWAs are for.

It would be a PWA; rather than running the web app on electron chromium, run on Chrome.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

VLM wrote: post #115
tootie wrote: post #45

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

The future being unevenly distributed, I've been doing that for a long time privately, not publicly, via Apache Guacamole (with LDAP integration for configuring) as my front end to some virtual dev boxes. I've never run into the slightest issue between chromebook html5 browser and Apache Guacamole, which I suppose does not prove no problem could exist for anyone else. Its SSH is really a very nice terminal emulator,…

> emacs is ... difficult but possible

Have you tried remapping the search key to something else?

> Android studio emulator had some weirdness with it not being amused at attempting virtual machine hardware acceleration on a vmware image of a windows box; probably depends exactly which version of studio you install and when you installed it...

Did you expose the CPU virtualization extensions to the outer VM? VMWare has an option per-VM, but it's off by default.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by spurcell93 »

RhodesianHunter wrote: post #153
freehunter wrote: post #114

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Cloud9 is better than other AWS products in that you can click through one wizard that sets up your EC2 instance and provisions the Cloud9 software on it at the same time. The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth, but just getting into Cloud9 can be saved with a bookmark once it's set up, and setting it up is just one wizard. Agreed that it's a higher barrier of entry compared to how simple and…

> The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth I've heard this enough times to know that it's widely agreed upon, but I've never understood it personally.

Given the absolutely massive and technical amount of features that aws requires, it's not surprising (or even worthy of condemnation) that the interface can get somewhat convoluted. That said, I wonder if there is a stripped down version of that interface that would better accommodate a hypothetical cohort of extremely common use cases. I would bet there isnt, which is why the interface is so.... Deep.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by ryenus »

Sourcegraph used to be an online vscode, simply the coolest back then, but seems no more, they suddenly changed direction, possibly due to conflict of interests with Microsoft?

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by hestefisk »

pjmlp wrote: post #124
ssijak wrote: 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.

Companies want to force us back to the days of time-sharing taking the power out of our computers, placing the gems of our work gated into their systems.

Why? It’s still on top of Git so it is fully decentralised. Having options isn’t evil in itself.
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