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Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by lostintangent »

pavanagrawal123 wrote: post #2

This might be a better link with more info (source): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-prod...

Thanks for the link! That post explains the broader context of work that our team is working on to improve developer productivity moving forward.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by pavanagrawal123 »

lostintangent wrote: post #22
pavanagrawal123 wrote: post #2

This might be a better link with more info (source): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-prod...

Thanks for the link! That post explains the broader context of work that our team is working on to improve developer productivity moving forward.

Of course! I love the work the VS team is doing inside of MS Would like to see things like this, remote code, etc. open sourced though :)

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by simias »

elamje wrote: post #21

Very nice - moves in this direction will give more developers the ability to use lower-end computers like Chromebooks to do just about everything.

Is the editor/IDE really the limitation? If anything web-technology-based IDEs are usually the ones wasting resources nowadays, my long-lived emacs session running the SLIME environment to interact with common lisp uses a meager (by modern standards) 110MB of RAM. I used a very similar setup 15 years ago on a computer with 512MB of RAM and a single-core 1.5GHz CPU.

You can already develop very comfortably on a chromebook if you're willing to forsake the bloat of the web. Actually if I can trust Wikipedia a modern Chromebook outperforms my main desktop machine a decade ago. Putting everything in the cloud doesn't strike me as a great step forward, although it could have its uses.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by Frost1x »

bobblywobbles wrote: post #8

What benefits does this provide to flat-out installing VSCode? I'm not seeing any here..

It provides Microsoft with tighter piracy control over their IDE with a better way to charge more for virtually the same functionality under the *aaS umbrella.

Oh, did you mean benefits for those not invested in Microsoft?

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by contextfree »

AshleyGrant wrote: post #11
kgwxd wrote: post #3

Been using it every day at work for 4 years. Never even noticed the name change to "Azure DevOps". Has anyone here ever used an online IDE, for anything other than very small tasks?

This is actually a new product using the old product name.

Yes. The product/service now known as Azure DevOps was originally called the Team Foundation Service, then Visual Studio Online, then Visual Studio Team Services, and now it's Azure DevOps. This Visual Studio Online is a new product/service.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by manishsharan »

As an "oldtimer", I tried out AWS Cloud9 and other cloud based IDEs and came away deeply unimpressed . However my frame of reference was to my experience with my heavily customized IDEs.

However, my daughter's classroom uses only online IDEs. I think they got used to this style of IDEs when they got started with Scratch programming in elementary school. These kids are much more comfortable and productive on the online IDEs than my generation. They also share a lot and are more socially engaged while coding than I ever was.

So Kudos to all Cloud IDEs; I am not sure I will ever appreciate you but my kids sure will .

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