Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE

Post by jamesgeck0 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

kls wrote: post #161

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Theia runs inside a web browser. VS Code doesn't.

The question is, did they approach the VS code team and ask them if they where opposed to this feature. Assuming it does not break anything I cannot see why they would be. I get it, it's open source they can do as they please it just seems to me like the logical first step would be to say hey can we combine efforts. Maybe they did, I don't know, that is the approach I personally would take, improve an already awesome…

Post by battery_cowboy » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:45 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #88

garettmd wrote: post #51

I think many people are missing the point that this doesn't appear to be a finished product ready for developers to use. It looks like Eclipse's goal is to make a foundation that others can customize for their purposes, building off of what VSCode has already done. That's not to say this is a good idea or not, but I think all the comments asking "Why would anyone switch to this from VSCode" are missing the point.

If MS could pull their cart out of the dirt with VSCode, why not Eclipse?

Post by DeathArrow » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

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As someone who has been cursing Apple’s abominably obnoxious attitude in this regard for the last few days, this would be music to my ears. I think it’s never going to happen. It’s the complete antithesis of everything that Apple stands for as a company.

Beside that reason (true) a mayor roadblock would be that the iOS simulator (the simulated debug device running alongside Xcode on the development host) is a simulator, not an emulator: it runs iOS libraries re-compiled for x64 using the macOS kernel (and the macOS Foundation and Cocoa libraries) support. Porting that on another host OS is probably borderline impossible. Doing something borderline impossible that wil…

Post by jhasse » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 9:32 AM UTC

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One could argue if VScode is an open source project or not. But when copying an open source project, it's not called rip-off, it's called fork. The intentions of forks are to improve the software, try out new ideas, etc, and the original software can merge new features developed in the fork. Forks can however be "hostile" when the intentions are to rip-off the original creator by stealing users/sponsors and making th…

> One could argue if VScode is an open source project or not I mean... not really, no?! It's MIT licensed and fits any definition of OSS I've ever seen. AFAIK, the only non-OSS part is the installer .

Post by jhasse » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

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"Hey Microsoft, we're trying to improve VS Code by moving it over to a not-for-profit corporation not under your control and completly removing the Visual Studio brand. What do you think?"

It's pretty fair considering Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish was the MS modus operandi for decades and may yet be.