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.
Remote-Powered Developer Tools
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#32As 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…
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#33What 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.
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#34This might be a better link with more info (source): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-prod...
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#35But then they'll learn that I only debug with print statements.
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#36Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools
#37This might be a better link with more info (source): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-prod...
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#38Very nice - moves in this direction will give more developers the ability to use lower-end computers like Chromebooks to do just about everything.
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#39Been 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.