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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by tills13 » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

client4 wrote: post #20

If multiple users could use the "IDE" at the same time I could move entirely off of GSuite. Right now being able to edit the occasional code block with 4 people watching is worth GDocs.

You could use VSCode Live Share...

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by dominotw » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

I think they are spreading themselves too thin working on way too many features. Feature envy with github is not a good way to define your roadmap.

They should drop everything and focus the most important feature: speed.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by magic_beans » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

cabaalis wrote: post #14

I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user? (1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot (2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image. (3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text…

My god it gave me a headache. I'm sure a designer thought it was too cool to resist.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by qop » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

I'd love to see more symbiosis between editors and deployment tools.

I could write my code and tests in the browser editor, and just have a dashboard with everything I need to know.

Then when I'm at home I can use my editor and still hack the old fashioned way.

I wish Microsoft has bought gitlab instead of github. They could have this new editor tie in with azure or something cool like that. Like websharper, but for everybody else.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by shayac2 » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

Ironic how they have Microsoft to thank for open-sourcing Monaco

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by aldanor » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

MajorSauce wrote: post #10

Add a dark theme and we are talking!

There is a dark theme.

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

Rickasaurus wrote: post #4

If I were them I might try to integrate with some existing open source plugin system (Atom or VSCode?) to get more supported languages for free.

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Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by aldanor » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

qaq wrote: post #11

erikb wrote: post #2

Gitlab is an awesome data center load tester, the only thing that's missing is a good github alternative. ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978048

How long until the email client is also part of Gitlab?

And a slideshow editor. Plus commercial support for Visual Basic!

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by pomber » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:27 PM UTC

> We are planning for an even better experience in the future: one where we can integrate and support more advanced features, such as a live environment to test your code against

This. Please.

I'm playing with a similar concept for GitHub: https://twitter.com/pomber/status/1003416752146075648

Re: GitLab Web IDE

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Post by upbeatlinux » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

Hmm, at one point wasn't there a tight integration between Koding and GitLab? Or at least an attempt to make the tools more cooperative?

In fact a Koding acquisition by GitLab seemed like a no brainer.

FWIW ~2012-2013 there was Cloud9, Koding and Nitrous. Now that Nitrous is defunct and Cloud9 was acquired I'm not sure what fills the void.

Put differently is there a void to fill? Is there an actual demand for web IDE's? Or is this just bling?