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People do want this. If you asked me what I want, in terms of software, a great cloud IDE is near the top of my list. I didn’t want this before I had kids, tho

by veidr 8y ago

People do want this. If you asked me what I want, in terms of software, a great cloud IDE is near the top of my list. I didn’t want this before I had kids, though. But now that I do, I greatly value being able to stop work suddenly, even in the middle of a line of code, and then resume what I was doing sometime in the future, somewhere else and on a different device. So: different people want different things, and the things people want change over time, too. You might not want a cloud IDE, but based on the many projects and companies in this space, and the many millions of dollars being spent on it, I’m quite sure I am not alone in wanting to be able to code in the cloud. Years ago, it was equally implausible to do your word-processing and spreadsheets in the cloud. Now it’s routine.

shadowmint 8y ago
People want it... Yes, but do gitlab users want it? I’m not arguing theres a place for a web ide... sure. That’s a thing. ...but as part of gitlab? really? ...and lets be explicit here; part of gitlab instead of a stand alone product? What if you want an IDE that uses a different source control? Whats the benefit to me of having it as part of gitlab?
- swsieber 8y ago
  You? Maybe not to much. It IT, perhaps quite a bit more. As for myself, I don't think I could ever get my company to approve (well, setup) a Web IDE, but if it's part of GitLab...
- veidr 8y ago
  Well, I can't say for sure if if would benefit you, but the one thing I found useful about it is that it makes it easy to do code reviews without checking out the whole project. At work we use GitHub, so to do a code review I have to check out the working branch or PR that I am reviewing, and review it in my local IDE/editor software. I have to do that because the web UI that shows the PR diff generally isn't sufficient to really review the code. I want to quickly jump to related files to follow the code path, keep the subset of files I'm referring to open in new tabs, get a project-level view of how the pieces fit together, and maybe step through some of the code in the debugger. Now, the first two are possible just using a web UI but it's very unlike a normal code editing experience. Using the GitLab IDE interface makes it easier to do the first three of those things. It still cannot actually run/debug a program, but I presume that their goal is to someday enable that kind of thing, at least for some kinds of projects. Today, all major git repo hosting services have rudimentary web-based single-file text editors — seems to me that adding IDE-like multi-file project-level editors is a pretty straightforward and logical extension of that. So yeah, as a GitLab user, I want this. As a GitHub user, I want them to copy this idea and implement something similar. And if I were a BitBucket user...

by veidr 8y ago

shadowmint 8y ago

People want it... Yes, but do gitlab users want it? I’m not arguing theres a place for a web ide... sure. That’s a thing. ...but as part of gitlab? really? ...and lets be explicit here; part of gitlab instead of a stand alone product? What if you want an IDE that uses a different source control? Whats the benefit to me of having it as part of gitlab?

swsieber 8y ago
You? Maybe not to much. It IT, perhaps quite a bit more. As for myself, I don't think I could ever get my company to approve (well, setup) a Web IDE, but if it's part of GitLab...
veidr 8y ago
Well, I can't say for sure if if would benefit you, but the one thing I found useful about it is that it makes it easy to do code reviews without checking out the whole project. At work we use GitHub, so to do a code review I have to check out the working branch or PR that I am reviewing, and review it in my local IDE/editor software. I have to do that because the web UI that shows the PR diff generally isn't sufficient to really review the code. I want to quickly jump to related files to follow the code path, keep the subset of files I'm referring to open in new tabs, get a project-level view of how the pieces fit together, and maybe step through some of the code in the debugger. Now, the first two are possible just using a web UI but it's very unlike a normal code editing experience. Using the GitLab IDE interface makes it easier to do the first three of those things. It still cannot actually run/debug a program, but I presume that their goal is to someday enable that kind of thing, at least for some kinds of projects. Today, all major git repo hosting services have rudimentary web-based single-file text editors — seems to me that adding IDE-like multi-file project-level editors is a pretty straightforward and logical extension of that. So yeah, as a GitLab user, I want this. As a GitHub user, I want them to copy this idea and implement something similar. And if I were a BitBucket user...