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Introducing the Theia IDE

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"This openness allows users to avoid a vendor-lock in for their development tooling, which is tremendously important.."

I would question if you really do have vendor lock-in with an IDE, as usually the hardest thing about switching IDEs is learning the new keystrokes.

Between the vs-only extensions, vs-only Live share, and vs-only adapters to AIs, we're actually in the age of pretty strong vendor lock in, if you're invested in some features. Add some less common task management integration or review system, and the vendor lock in may be close to company-wide.

Exactly. Being a vim or emacs user these days is quite the upstream swim. Everything is made for VS code, and it's actually affecting productivity. In the past it was more of a personal preference, but that is becoming less true. That said, they'll have to take vim from my cold dead fingers if they want me to stop :-)

Have you ever done embedded development?

Usually you get shipped a more or less broken piece of IDE, which is the only supported way (meaning the only way you are allowed to use) to develop for the embedded hardware.

I think most people are missing who this is for and what problem it is trying to solve.

> I think most people are missing who this is for and what problem it is trying to solve.

I certainly am. Care to enlighten me?

As I wrote in my post, if you are working in embedded you will get an IDE from the chip manufacturer, which is the only real way to develop software for that chip.

Generally those IDEs are not particularly good, as they are some hacked together toolkits based on some more or less flexible existing IDE. What Theia wants to accomplish is allowing chip manufacturers to build an IDE based on a flexible platform, with good extension support.

More or less Theia isn't for you and it doesn't really try to compete with VSCode.

Thank you, that’s very helpful!

He literally just said it.

Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792258 - April 2020 (183 comments)

Also related:

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825146

One day ago, 160 comments.

Ahh! Thanks. I didn't see it because its not the official source, I only checked those two.

Nice thanks, I kept thinking this is much bigger news than the reception it is getting. Good to know at least it isn't the first round.

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