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Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Mac only :(

It's an Electron app, so it should build for Windows without too much trouble. If you're interested, give it a shot and let us know how it goes :) None of us are Windows experts, so happy to take any pull requests for Windows support. (Or even Linux)

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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post #3
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Mac only :(

It's an Electron app, so it should build for Windows without too much trouble. If you're interested, give it a shot and let us know how it goes :) None of us are Windows experts, so happy to take any pull requests for Windows support. (Or even Linux)

I'm guessing he meant Linux.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Why are you guys using Slack for team comms? Wouldn't it be easier for all involved to be a channel on Reactiflux's Discord?

We are open to moving to Discord. We used Slack during our private beta and so this is a continuation of that Slack channel.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an Electron app, so it should build for Windows without too much trouble. If you're interested, give it a shot and let us know how it goes :) None of us are Windows experts, so happy to take any pull requests for Windows support. (Or even Linux)

I'm guessing he meant Linux.

Linux support would be awesome too. Based on our beta, we got twice as many signups for Windows as Linux, so we're probably gonna prioritize Windows support unless we get a lot of sudden Linux interest.

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing he meant Linux.

Linux support would be awesome too. Based on our beta, we got twice as many signups for Windows as Linux, so we're probably gonna prioritize Windows support unless we get a lot of sudden Linux interest.

+1 for Linux interest

Re: Deco IDE for React Native: Now Free and Open Source

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This appears to be only for OS X. I use to be a big OS X user, but have come to find Linux is a far superior development platform for me.

From a comment on reddit: Most developers who use OSX do not develop for OSX/iPhone, but instead deploy 100% of their code to Linux VMs on EC2 or Digital Ocean. Their toolchain is usually 100% OSS terminal-based tools such as Vim/Emacs, tmux, clang/gcc, PHP/Python/Ruby, zsh/bash; all of which are available via Linux package managers (and have better support on Linux). While homebrew is nice, it's package selection is much smaller than APT/DNF/Pacman, and it's source-based so have fun waiting for LLVM to compile...

Eventually I realized I was basically a Linux user and I was trying to make OS X work like Linux. According to stack overflow dev surveys they show Linux experiences a 10-fold increase in usage amongst developers compared to it's typical rate of usage on the desktop. This also drew me toward Linux. OSX only experiences a two-fold increase in usage amongst developers and Windows actually experiences a large decrease in users compared to their desktop monopoly. Right now I'm developing React native applications completely in vim.

If this application ever comes out for Linux I'll definitely install it and give it a try. Only being on OS X makes it inaccessible for most developers.

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