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I've been using code-server[1] for a month now. These are early days for both projects. Can somebody comment on their Theia v/s Code-Server story?

[1] https://github.com/codercom/code-server

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Theia is an IDE framework implemented with cloud first mindset, not a code patch to make VS Code to run in cloud. It does reuse important VS Code components, like Monaco editor, language-server and debug adapter protocols, and VS Code extensions, but relies only on stable and documented APIs for it.

Also:

- In addition to support of VS Code extensions, it has more flexible extension model to allow building white-labeled products like Gitpod (www.gitpod.io) or ARM Mbed Studio (https://os.mbed.com/studio/)

- It's open-source governed (Eclipse Foundation), i.e. no dependencies to Microsoft, all contributions are verified on license compatibility with Apache 2.0 and so on.

Oo wow. I did not know a lot of these things. Thanks!

Was going to say similar, haven't really been using Code server much yet, but was planning on spinning up an instance this weekend.

At first glance they do look similar.

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