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Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by shp0ngle » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 3:01 AM UTC

craftinator wrote: post #28

shp0ngle wrote: post #6

Note that this is not "actual" VSCode, but its fork code-server, that takes VSCode and modifies it to run in a browser. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This package just installs code-server on Google Colab, whatever that is. Hosted VSCode instances that Microsoft has on Azure and in beta on GitHub are a different thing and are not open source.

> This package just installs code-server on Google Colab, whatever that is. I laughed way too hard at this, because I have thoughts like this bounce around my head nearly every time I read about a Google product. It reminds me of Microsoft circa ~2006, when they were doing all kinds of wacky and ill-defined projects that turned into pure bloatware.

It sounded more disparaging than I meant it

I just have no idea what is Google Colab, I don't do Python/TensorFlow/jupyter, I don't know what "notebook" means in this context.

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by livre » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 11:43 AM UTC

egberts1 wrote: post #31

livre wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using it as my main editor for a Django codebase. It's not my favorite IDE, it's a bit slow too but it's the best I could find for what I do. Also I haven't found any good native IDE that can handle Python, Django, HTML, CSS and JS as well as VSCode. There are IDEs that can do Python (and Django) and others for HTML, CSS and JS but I don't want to be constantly switching between the two. If you know a good IDE th…

Mmm, JetBrain PyCharm/CLion?

I've tried JetBrains for Android dev and it's the best IDE I've used so far but it suffers from the same slowness issues as VSCode and has longer startup times. I should give it a try for Python/web dev, it may be a good replacement for VSCode for long sessions (I'll still be using VSCode for shorter ones because it starts quickly).

Re: VSCode on Google Colab

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Post by babuskov » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

nexuist wrote: post #24

babuskov wrote: post #20

I'm curious. I know it's great for one-offs, but is anyone actually using VSCode as their main tool when so many native IDEs and text editors are available? I would love to know what's your use case. Maybe I'm missing something big.

I use it for every project. I mainly code node.js and sometimes Python. Speed has never been an issue for me; VSCode boots up in under a second and easily chews through thousands of lines of code (albeit without tokenization). The new SSH connection mode has been a lifesaver for me - you can now sync VSCode with a server you have SSH access to, meaning you can browse/open/save files remotely, and open as many termina…

Cool. I wasn't aware of this use case. Thanks.