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Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by patrickserrano »

ARandumGuy wrote: post #4

This seems really cool, and seems like it took a lot of man hours to put together. However, I'm not sure who this is for. Downloading and installing an application is not a particularly big ask for the type of people who use VSCode. The browser version will always be a compromised experience, given the inherent limitations of browser applications. Even if it works 99% of the time, that 1% would add enough friction to…

Honestly, this looks amazing for times when I'm in a meeting and want to look a piece of more complex code but don't have a local copy of the repo. The Azure DevOps repo UI leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you know where a piece of code is called from but don't know where it's defined off the top of your head.

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Post by rpdillon »

I'm intrigued by the use of webapps in this way, but I really think we need a better solution for rebinding keys in the browser. I tend to use Emacs bindings (which practically every editor supports), but they are a bit of a mess in browsers because even extensions can't clobber bindings like C-n, and I recall having issues with C-w and C-p as well. Otherwise, very exciting to have high-quality, zero-install tooling like this!

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by chadlavi »

lom wrote: post #113

LPT: press . on any github repository when logged in and it will open that repository in vscode.dev with everything set up Similar to github codespaces without a real computer to back it up

it's neat but I wish it would also allow you to run code in a vm when you do this, so you could do things like linting, running test suites, etc before actually committing code. Without those things, this is really limited in its usefulness for any serious project, and more or less most useful as an overpowered CMS for GitHub pages blog sites or something.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by cheschire »

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.

the thing i enjoy about watching that in HN vs reddit or some other ranty site is that at least on HN the actual people being ranted AT will often show up.

It happens on twitter too apparently but then I would have to use twitter.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by aozgaa »

JasonCannon wrote: post #193
Zababa wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are those native binaries? I know that VSCode ships with ripgrep, but that's the limit of my knowledge. Those binaries probably could be compiled to WASM to make VSCode fully run in a browser too.

The Language Servers that power all of the intellisense and syntax highlighting and stuff are all native code. As are the compilers and everything that make VSCode more than just a text editor.

I think the typescript compiler and language service are implemented in typescript and compiled to JavaScript.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by paxys »

chadlavi wrote: post #203
lom wrote: post #113

LPT: press . on any github repository when logged in and it will open that repository in vscode.dev with everything set up Similar to github codespaces without a real computer to back it up

it's neat but I wish it would also allow you to run code in a vm when you do this, so you could do things like linting, running test suites, etc before actually committing code. Without those things, this is really limited in its usefulness for any serious project, and more or less most useful as an overpowered CMS for GitHub pages blog sites or something.

Github Codespaces is a way to do exactly that, but you have to pay for it by the hour.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by sailingparrot »

coldtea wrote: post #25
ARandumGuy wrote: post #4

This seems really cool, and seems like it took a lot of man hours to put together. However, I'm not sure who this is for. Downloading and installing an application is not a particularly big ask for the type of people who use VSCode. The browser version will always be a compromised experience, given the inherent limitations of browser applications. Even if it works 99% of the time, that 1% would add enough friction to…

> However, I'm not sure who this is for. Downloading and installing an application is not a particularly big ask for the type of people who use VSCode It's like how nerdy types could easily slap together their own Dropbox, with rsync and duct tape (as per the famous comment), but most didn't - plus the world is not just full of types who'd do it. And then MS can start adding all kinds of collaboration tools built in,…

> It's like how nerdy types could easily slap together their own Dropbox

Let's be honest, setting up and maintaining your dropbox clone, versus installing one executable once, are not the same kind of "easy".

> And then MS can start adding all kinds of collaboration tools built in, from pair coding to bug tracking, time tracking and so on.

But they can do that just as easily today with the vscode app. The fact that this runs in your browser does not help (or hinder) at all: As you said, offline VSCode is just a glorified browser.

> I can imagine an enterprise giving devs just this

presumably they would have to give you a laptop to access it, and any laptop that can run it in the browser can run it offline, this is 99% the same codebase.

Overall I also don't understand where this fits between offline VSCode and Codespaces. Codespaces makes sense because you don't even have to clone your code, and the compute/build happens elsewhere. Plus collaborative features can be added with no hassle because authentication is already baked in.

But this seems like it brings 0 value over offline, except skipping a 30 seconds install, once.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by azinman2 »

minimaxir wrote: post #19

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. Even on the iPad it's just as performant (with 120Hz scrolling!), although as noted in the announcement, the file system limitations make it a bit of a pain to work with for ad hoc coding.

It actually loads way faster for me in Safari than the actual VSCode app. To be fair, Safari is already running when I try this versus a cold boot for VSCode.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by pbalau »

enumjorge wrote: post #170
paxys wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And while those stories are interesting to hear, I don’t know why they so often make it to the top or near it. Like is one PM being bad at listening to user feedback really the most interesting topic of discussion for this post?

The truth is most people lack the skills required to understand and comment of most things posted here. They also have a "need" to get involved in discussions, thus they cling to what they know/understand.

This is why you get these anecdotes upvoted, this is why you get "options" on most "Show HN" threads.

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