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Citation: "Unfortunately, Microsoft prohibits non-Visual Studio products from installing any binaries downloaded from their marketplace". Etc...
If that were the case, then coc.nvim [0] wouldn't work quite the way it does. I run VSCode extensions in NeoVim all the time now. [0] https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
While I don't plan to use it in the near futre, its good to have alternative because company agendas do change and less so in non-profit zone. But, the major benefit IMO is this: > We encourage VS Code extension developers to push their extensions to Open VSX in addition to Microsoft’s marketplace.” Open VSX is “an open-source implementation of a VS Code extension registry that we have developed under the umbrella of…
Edit: Someone just opened an issue. If that was you and you're reading this, thanks! https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/372
I was confused why the screenshot on the homepage ( https://theia-ide.org/ ) looked so outrageously similar to VSCode, so I checked the source. It looks like the editor widget is Monaco (from VSCode) so the text editing experience is entirely based on VSCode and Theia provides an alternative for the surrounding IDE stuff. Then they added a theme that imitates VSCode as much as possible to create the screenshot on the…
Yeah... My first thought was, OK... they've just forked VS Code without really saying they did. Digging a bit it seemed that wasn't the case, but the marketing message that "this is VS Code just without Microsoft" would seem to be strong enough as to cause real marketplace confusion.
I was very excited about theia because you could run it as a web server, meaning I could develop with a complete IDE (ideal for TypeScript development) from anywhere, without the code ever leaving a certain network.
This didn't work all that well when I tried it because it wasn't 100% compatible with vscode extensions yet (for example couldn't get vim keybindings), but I was able to use for a couple weeks during a trip and I got things done.
Now that vscode allows working over ssh and other solutions, I don't see a need for an alternative. I can work remotely with the exact same thing as from my main workstation.
Che is a cloud ide that is supposed to be easily deployed into a k8s cluster. Che supports authentication and spinning up pods for projects, and other management features. Theia may have been developed to work nicely with Che directly (I am not a developer of either so this is only speculation).
What non OSS things are there to vscode? Is it the controversial telemetry stuff they’re doing that’s causing forks?
- FreeBSD, the open-source alternative to Linux
- Baidu, the privacy abusing alternative to Google
- Elon Musk, the self-absorbed prick alternative to Steve Jobs
OK, I'll bite... "...that enable developers, organizations, and vendors to create new, extensible solutions that avoid the fees associated with VS Code." What fees are they talking about? VS Code is not my regular editor, but the whole thing seems to indicate confusion between "Visual Studio" and "Visual Studio Code". I am missing something or is the Eclipse Foundation really conflating the two?
But seriously, the Eclipse Foundation would be a much trustworthier steward for a wide-used IDE than Microsoft. Unfortunately, Eclipse is in the same situation Firefox was against Chrome 5 years ago: it's slow compared to other Java IDEs like Jetbrain's.
* Google runs Theia as the editor in the Google Cloud Shell,
* Arduino's new Pro IDE is based on Theia ,
* SAP have replaced their Web IDE with Theia ,
* Arm's new mbed Studio is based on Theia, and
* D-Wave Systems have adopted Gitpod which allows anyone to do quantum computing with Theia
Seems it's really focused on running embedded in browser, and also allowing you create custom IDE environments from it more easily.