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Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by ramses0 »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #84

It's not only an awesome technical achievement, but it has also so much potential to be useful. And yet, something at the back on my head is screaming: WARNING! I have the intuition that, on the long run, using more and more tools that are not on your own machine will create a dependency on systems big companies control. And something tells me we are going to pay for it in the end. So I'll stay away. Maybe I'm gettin…

It's already that way. It's immensely hard to "develop on an airplane / desert island". eg: even documentation is at best something like "dash" => https://kapeli.com/dash ... forget about anything more complicated than SQLite, and if you're lucky docker-compose for occasionally connected use.

My experience? Chromebook / Crouton, usually offline with occasional network access. I ended up leaning hard towards SPA's + javascript, with most of the documentation being "legit" available. (JS, HTML, CSS, DOM, etc.) ...occasionally researching + pulling in libraries on occasion.

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Post by aydwi »

dudus wrote: post #12

> quickly parked it (...) (or, if you are from the Boston area like me, we "pahked it" What a strange joke to include on Developer docs.

Yeah what a shame...I too prefer to pretend like a robot on this forum.

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Post by tehlike »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #43

Interesting they're using tree-sitter for syntax highlighting. Obviously they can't run LSPs in the browser so this must have been an alternative. I'd be curious to see this get into mainline desktop VS Code though (and I'm not alone: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140 ).

why can't they run LSP?

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Post by tehlike »

Next up will be using webusb or an extension to do mobile development on browser, and streaming (or straight up running the emulator through wasm).

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Post by sic1 »

vineyardmike wrote: post #98
johnday wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For those who think web-based IDEs are inefficient, I recommend giving VS Code in the browser a try: nowadays it's just as performant as it is on the desktop. This doesn't read to me as the acclaim that you think it is. What I'm hearing is that the desktop application is as slow as a web IDE. No doubt the people at VSCode have put every effort into making the application run well on desktop, but that's not to say t…

> the desktop application is as slow as a web IDE. Have you ever used VSCode on the desktop? I have never experienced any issue with VSCode nor have I ever wished it performed better.

I envy you for never having issues with VS Code. I have to restart it far, far too often for it grinding to a halt. I'll lose my auto-complete menus completely. Forget auto-completing any paths (like for imports) when it gets to this state. I have to restart my whole computer sometimes.

I have minimal plugins, but have once again removed some more that I thought were helpful, performance got a little bit better again. But we shall see how long it holds up, as I've done this a couple times now in an attempt to gain reliable performance. This is on basically a brand new 15" i9 Intel MBP.

I'm not the only one I've talked to that has random slow-downs like this. I've literally contemplated going back to Sublime Text 2 for my sanity - I just want things to work reliably. Oh, and if you accidentally click on one of your build files, enjoy the system lock-up!

I don't need new features every month in VS Code that I won't use. I just want better performance on the basics so I can get back to being in flow, writing code, solving problems.

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Post by IshKebab »

paxys wrote: post #147
n8cpdx wrote: post #5

Very cool stuff. I remember being at Build 2018 and asking the PM on the Live Share team if they had any plans to bring VS Code to the browser. Maybe do managed environments for labs and companies (what GitHub code spaces now is), would be great for education. Lots of students (especially non-CS nerds, like the physics kids with a CS requirement) find environment setup to be one of the hardest parts. He seemed to thi…

On every HN thread I count the minutes until it turns into a personal rant against some big company, and it never disappoints.

They're almost as tedious as

"I want to share an anecdote about me that is tangentially related to the article. I'm not going to comment on the article, but the title reminded me of something that I thought of once, or maybe something that happened to me. I'm pretty smart so I'll share it with my fellow smart people here now. It's about me.

Back in 2003 I was running an FTP server from my garage. It was running on one of the new Slackware BSD boxes that were popular at the time. We didn't have many users but one that we did have was Jamie Zawinski - actually he was my roommate at the time.

We used to spend most evenings coming up with new compression algorithms and practicing Vim exit sequences and ..."

Yeah anyway I'm not a HN comment generator AI but it's crazy how many comments here are just "let me tell you a story about me".

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by airocker »

n8cpdx wrote: post #5

Very cool stuff. I remember being at Build 2018 and asking the PM on the Live Share team if they had any plans to bring VS Code to the browser. Maybe do managed environments for labs and companies (what GitHub code spaces now is), would be great for education. Lots of students (especially non-CS nerds, like the physics kids with a CS requirement) find environment setup to be one of the hardest parts. He seemed to thi…

We built lab.computer for this. Root access, state save, sharing, auto/manual grading. We would love to get some feedback. Everyone using it seems to love it.
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