Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by pavanagrawal123 » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:40 PM UTC

Remote-Powered Developer Tools
devblogs.microsoft.com

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by pavanagrawal123 » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:48 PM UTC

This might be a better link with more info (source): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-prod...

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by kgwxd » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:50 PM UTC

Been 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?

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by fxfan » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:53 PM UTC

I just want to put something out there since yesterday somebody mentioned that the password manager isn't portable if it's Windows only.

I'd argue that portability is defined by how many people can use your product and a hardware native Windows only password manager runs on 93% of worlds desktop but a RAM hogging electron apps can only run on enterprise grade computers.

Qt apps are cross platform and portable, electron apps might be the former but definitely are not the latter.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by dessant » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:54 PM UTC

But then they'll learn that I only debug with print statements.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by mpweiher » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

So basically, you can run Visual Studio Code in the browser you already have instead of installing a private browser to run it in?

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by brian_herman__ » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

Nice! This already kicks Cloud9's butt.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by bobblywobbles » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

What benefits does this provide to flat-out installing VSCode? I'm not seeing any here..

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by tinyhouse » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

Haven't tried it but this seems useful. I know Google has something similar they use a lot internally. I guess one common use case for this is when you have code you need to run on a remote server but you want a nice development experience like you're developing locally (sometimes I see developers open an IDE on a remote server which is too slow). A better solution is working locally and having all changes sync automatically to the remote server. (yes yes I know, you can use vim or emacs...). If there are MS people here I'd be interested to hear their thoughts on this.

Re: Remote-Powered Developer Tools

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Post by reificator » Mon, May 06, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

Not surprised given VSCode's legacy as Monaco.

Will be interesting to see how the (at least) two companies offering hosted VSCode will respond.

https://coder.com/

https://stackblitz.com/

(Used inline in the documentation for LitElement/Polymer: https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/)