Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code • Hacker News Board

If this is intended to be a VSCode alternative, where are the download area? Why the strong emphasis on cloud? A version 1.0 with no package released? need top run it on docker?

I don't want to sound negative, I would really want to download it an try it... but from what I see in a quick glance, they want me to setup a whole cloud to use this, not how I envision an editor that is trying to take on the most popular editor nowadays

Re: Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

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Post by newprint » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC

But why ? What is the point ? There is already Visual Studio(free community edition equivalent to Professional Edition), Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ. Why waste more time and effort to re-invent the wheel ? As OSS project, it will not be able to keep-up with changes to MSBuild and .NET

Re: Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

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Post by sbuttgereit » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

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?

Re: Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

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Post by aDfbrtVt » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

_benj wrote: post #5

If this is intended to be a VSCode alternative, where are the download area? Why the strong emphasis on cloud? A version 1.0 with no package released? need top run it on docker? I don't want to sound negative, I would really want to download it an try it... but from what I see in a quick glance, they want me to setup a whole cloud to use this, not how I envision an editor that is trying to take on the most popular ed…

Really odd that RedHat is a part of the development group but I can't find a package for RHEL.

Link to the Docker https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps#theia-docker

Re: Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

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Post by trishume » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 4:12 PM UTC

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 homepage, other instances like their example of Gitpod look less like VSCode.

Re: Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

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Post by manigandham » Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

Product page: https://theia-ide.org/

Release blog post: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/theia-1-0-finally-a-good-browser...

They claim it's a framework for building domain-specific IDEs that uses the same extension framework and language server protocols developed by the VS team.

However VS Code already offers a desktop installer and runs in the cloud like VSOnline and CodeSandbox. And I'm not sure why a "neutral" extension marketplace matters because you can always download and install the extensions separately.