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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by chiefalchemist »

jakecodes wrote: post #128
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.

Hey there. I'm the developer who made the POC. My original idea came after watching non-technical people try to make changes to the readme. They would have to ask for a lot of help to get the terminal open or use a GUI. When really all they wanted to do was make a quick change. The idea is that there's a lot of different users using git and I want to make it accessible for everyone.

If you can pull that off sainthood might be in your future :) looking forward to seeing this happen.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by sytse »

bitL wrote: post #59

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!

Thanks! One of our sub-values is boring solutions https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#efficiency

So I don't think we'll be creating a programming language soon. I'm following crystal https://crystal-lang.org/ with interest. And one of our team members is making one in a private capacity https://gitlab.com/yorickpeterse/inko

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by chiefalchemist »

Dayshine wrote: post #24
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.

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...

The irony that Git was instrumental in the evolution to GUI-based computing, but didn't also make that same jump to lightspeed has always dumbfounded me.

Git, like God, is good :) But even, over time, God has evolved and gotten more accessible.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by prattmic »

tootie wrote: post #78
qop wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really what I hope the future is. I'm shocked Google hasn't tripled their efforts to make the chromebook a code editor masterpiece. You'd think they'd have spearheaded it themselves. Now I'm keeping my eyes on Microsoft bringing arm64 hardware in the game. 20+hr battery life + wifi means I could just work wherever I want during the day and then go home at night and charge. Adventure coding, EVERY DAY! That'd b…

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

Chrome OS is adding Linux container support, and it looks like VS Code works: https://kmyers.me/blog/chromeos/running-visual-studio-code-o...

Docs: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by paradite »

I have been using GitLab IDE in the past few months for documentation updates and it has been great. Whenever I see an outdated doc in the repo, I just click edit on the markdown file. It provides markdown preview and automatically creates patch-n branch and merge request for me without the need to touch my terminal. Super convenient.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by IncRnd »

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.

No. They don't want to take power away from you. They want more people to use their platforms. That could mean selling enterprise cloud access, selling chromebooks, selling on-prem solutions, or selling more copies of sublime text.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by Kamshak »

I feel like StackBlitz beats all other Web IDEs since it's pretty much just VSCode in the Browser. The only one where TS code completion works and they can offer it very cheaply since the tech is so great that they don't even need to run a server to bundle anything. Just great! ATM it's only good for frontend apps though. My dream would be a combination of Cloud9 and the StackBlitz editor.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by abtinf »

At first I was excited about this. Then I tried it. There is no working set. Reloading the web page loses all changes.

This would have been a nice path to bring less technical folks into gitlab, say for writing articles and other copy. But I can already imagine the non-stop complaints about losing work.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by m6g6a »

zachlatta wrote: post #18

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…

soon or later, i think github will introduce an ide based on the https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor
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