Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
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Looks just like VS Code and I think it's still built on electron so take that as you will.
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Looks just like VS Code and I think it's still built on electron so take that as you will.
I feel like browser support is such a niche. I don't understand why many IDEs dedicate so many resources to make it work on the browser. There are already many options to code on the web if you need it.
Pretty sure it’s to enable extensions written in JS. These apps build their success on a rich ecosystem of plugins. And, like it or not, JS plays a big part in that.
But the best (fastest) plugins aren't written in js.
I don’t disagree, but that’s not what most people care about.
Chromebooks maybe?
I always figured the browser part mostly falls out of doing the Electron-for-cross-platform thing.
I know when I was reaserching this as an option for secure development there was a pretty much just this group and jupyter notebooks.
It's a lot easier to run web apps on the desktop than the opposite and there are a lot more people with experience developing with HTML/CSS/JS.