Interesting, I think several websites are doing this.
I wonder if at some point VS Code will add some enterprise editions, these feel like the perfect place to do it.
I wonder if at some point VS Code will add some enterprise editions, these feel like the perfect place to do it.
Microsoft's strategy is to build a moat around VS Code/GitHub. Compared to GitLab, they have:
* Brand recognition of VS Code
* VS Code extension gallery that only VS Code can connect to
* Buttons in the Desktop version of VS Code to connect to GitHub Codespaces, Azure etc
* MS-written closed source extensions- Pylance, parts of OmniSharp, Remote SSH, Remote Containers, Remote WSL, Live Share, GitHub Copilot, IntelliCode, Python WASM In the Browser, GitHub Codespaces integration.
* Control over the VS Code API. They can add just the functionality their extensions need and nothing more.
* They own the LSP specs. They can add just the functionality that VS Code implements and nothing more.
* Control over the VS Code "proposed" API. If you want to use these APIs in your extension, you have to be whitelisted by Microsoft (or ask users to install a non-VS Code version of VS Code). Gitlab can offer a Web IDE, they can't offer integration with desktop VS Code to provide those nice features like desktop-level keyboard shortcuts, Git Clone, compare with working tree, etc as that would use the "proposed" APIs.
This blog post gives a little more high level overview of the current functionality and where we're headed: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/12/15/get-ready-for-new-g...
For a deeper dive you can check out our Remote Development [direction page](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/editor/remote_deve...) and [documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/remote_development/)
> The Web Terminal and Live Preview are not available in the Web IDE Beta.
> These features may become available at a later date.
I think cloud vendors like gitlab and others should actually work on rewriting or maintaining a different fork or write an entirely different web editor altogether.
VSC is not a piece of competitor-friendly software and most importantly it does not support mobile browsers so imho all these companies are locking themselves in the past as the need for mobile and tablet editing (even if limited) is going to keep rising and they are not offering it.
If more people were asking for it, I would try again, but the time spent per user to set up a pipeline for each extension just doesn't make sense at the moment. I'd rather spend those nights adding features for the existing mainline users. Cynical perhaps, but there's no reward for making extensions, so there's a limited amount of time I can spend on it.
I'd like to see a hard fork for VSCodium, where the community could make UX/DX upgrades that VSCode's Microsoft-employed gatekeepers have summarily shut down time and time again (see: issues on the find/replace dialogs)
People don't really optimize for 0.001% of use cases.