Web-based editor

#1

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

Web-based editor
docs.github.com

Re: Web-based editor

#2

Post by zz865 » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:31 AM UTC

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

Re: Web-based editor

#3

Post by amitport » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

zz865 wrote: post #2

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

Why is it scary?

Re: Web-based editor

#4

Post by SimeVidas » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

zz865 wrote: post #2

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

Not “everything is done in a browser” but “everything is done in applications running in a browser engine”

Re: Web-based editor

#5

Post by maxwellito » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

It's surprisingly good! Same experience as using VSCode on my computer. I'll definitely start using it for quick edits, then probably end using it for normal development.

Curious to see how the developing experience will evolve in the next few years.

Re: Web-based editor

#6

Post by jhoechtl » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

amitport wrote: post #3

zz865 wrote: post #2

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

Why is it scary?

All your Data are belong to us?

Re: Web-based editor

#7

Post by headmelted » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

It looks like this is actually just the editor from Visual Studio Online unless I've missed something.

It's great, but if it were really Visual Studio Code that would be awesome and I'd be pleasantly surprised.

(The difference being that if it's just the editor it misses out on all the compiler/analysis integrations. If Github were providing Linux containers in the cloud for working on projects - essentially the SSH feature from Visual Studio Code - it would be absolutely brilliant.)

Re: Web-based editor

#8

Post by cube00 » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

headmelted wrote: post #7

It looks like this is actually just the editor from Visual Studio Online unless I've missed something. It's great, but if it were really Visual Studio Code that would be awesome and I'd be pleasantly surprised. (The difference being that if it's just the editor it misses out on all the compiler/analysis integrations. If Github were providing Linux containers in the cloud for working on projects - essentially the SSH…

> Because there is no associated compute, you won’t be able to build and run your code or use the integrated terminal. Only a subset of extensions that can run in the web will appear in the Extensions panel and can be installed. Likewise, support for certain programming languages may be more limited in the web.

Re: Web-based editor

#9

Post by headmelted » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

zz865 wrote: post #2

Its scary we're heading towards a situation where everything is done in a browser. Maybe Chromeos really is the future.

It's fantastic. Cloud 9 IDE has been surprisingly good at this point for many years but never really got much attention after the Amazon purchase.

Obviously it's no Visual Studio Code (not least because of the ecosystem of plugins), so it's great to see things coming along.

Re: Web-based editor

#10

Post by greatgib » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 9:37 AM UTC

Remember the typical Microsoft:

"embrace, extend, extinguish" ...