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Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

#31
I can see more developers adopting a cloud-based IDE. There may be desktop apps, which will be Electron or PWAs (if the APIs ever evolve enough), but the environment will be fully remote. The benefit is all the set up will already be done: the IDE will provide all the same code formatting, linting, dev sandbox, environment configuration, debugging profiles. No set up of any tooling to make this work. New employees can be more productive from day one. If your environment gets fubar'd just reset it instead spending the day unbreaking your machine. The company will be able to limit bike shedding by having all the same formatting and linting rules pre-setup. Code interviews will be easier to conduct.

It's already being done to a limited degree by companies such as repl.it. Once it is customized per enterprise customer, that's when it will really take off. Microsoft seems to be in a good position to lead that.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

#32

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 onlin…

Can I ask what city or school district your child goes to school in that they have programming classes in elementary school?

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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post #15

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

Offers ability to spin up remote development instances, can make it possible to code remotely or eventually on any device you want.

You can actually already do this with VSCode, its a recent feature (still only in Insiders). https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-develo...

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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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.

Exactly! We want to empower developers to work from anywhere and have the flexibility to choose the editor and device that makes them most productive.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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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?

At Google it's very common to use the internal web IDE called CIDER. At Amazon, some people use AWS Cloud 9 as their editor of choice but it's pretty uncommon in my neck of the woods.

Is the internal IDE based on this https://github.com/jordoncm/cider ?
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