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Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by jaywalk » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

dustinmoris wrote: post #11

MR4D wrote: post #2

I find a couple things pretty neat here: 1 - All of the screenshots are from a Mac. This never would have happened with the old MSFT. 2 - The performance of this is pretty good. Admittedly, I just played with this for a couple minutes, but even opening a folder with a bunch of files was snappy.

This is because Microsoft doesn't seem to want Windows developers to use VS Code. They want to keep them locked into Visual Studio and Windows Azure, which is why the C# plugin is one of the worst from all language plugins in Code.

That's a pretty strange implication. I just tried opening up a .NET Core application in VS Code developed exclusively in Visual Studio, and it fired right up. Now I certainly wouldn't say that the debugging experience is as good as VS, but nobody should expect it to be. VS Code isn't supposed to be a replacement for VS, although it can certainly hold it's own. And it's free.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by thurn » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

I've love to see this for open source, especially integrated into GitHub. A simple "click here to contribute" button could really lower the barrier to entry for first-timers.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by ravenstine » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

This is exactly what I've been looking for. There was another site (forget the name, something-something-cloud) that supposedly did this but it seems abandoned and didn't work on any browser that I used.

An online VS Code would not only make doing quick things with GitHub repos much easier but can be great for people just getting into learning programming because it doesn't require installing anything, but you are essentially starting out with a professional tool.

That and every once in a while I'm not on my own computer thus it would be pretty nice to kill time coding with a VS Code instance that doesn't need installation.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by tckerr » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

I would love to be able to pop this open for prototyping simple python/js scripts, but the lack of "run" support makes that much less feasible. Curious to see where the next iterations go.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by qbasic_forever » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

tracnar wrote: post #23

It seems to be like Theia https://theia-ide.org/ which is based on vscode and runs in the browser. It's used by this project to give a full lab/workspace and ide in the cloud: https://www.eclipse.org/che/ (it's actually closer to vscode even though eclipse is in the name).

No theia has a nodejs server backing its web experience. This vscode.dev is an entirely client side JS application that runs in your browser--there's no backend server beyond something to serve a pile of static JS and html.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by meibo » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #29

>"Fast forward to today. Now when you go to https://vscode.dev , you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser." Does that imply there is functionality missing from the online version of VS Code?

If you were to continue reading, you would be informed that many of the non-web languages don't have the same support in this version, since it can't run native language servers/any extensions that use OS-level APIs.

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by riquito » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

What api is it using to let you create a file in a local directory? I know about https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem but that's for virtualized filesystems

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by lostmsu » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

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.

As mentioned in the release notes, this only works for web languages sadly. And no debugging. In a way, that's not really a complete IDE (though they are probably working on it).

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by fetzu » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

thurn wrote: post #32

I've love to see this for open source, especially integrated into GitHub. A simple "click here to contribute" button could really lower the barrier to entry for first-timers.

I’m not sure if I am understanding your post correctly, but AFAIK you can just hit “.” from your browser on GitHub and it opens an editor (based on VSCode) for that repo.

Not sure if Git is fully integrated in there (although, it being based on VSCode, it should).

Re: Vscode.dev

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Post by tiffanyh » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

ravenstine wrote: post #33

This is exactly what I've been looking for. There was another site (forget the name, something-something-cloud) that supposedly did this but it seems abandoned and didn't work on any browser that I used. An online VS Code would not only make doing quick things with GitHub repos much easier but can be great for people just getting into learning programming because it doesn't require installing anything, but you are es…

You might be thinking of https://coder.com

>"Code-server is the primary open source project we maintain. It allows developers to use a browser to access remote dev environments running VS Code"