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Why is that? Did I say everyone had to adopt it? You don't think there's value in someone in a low-income situation being able to experiment with and use a full
by colemickens 8y ago
Why is that? Did I say everyone had to adopt it? You don't think there's value in someone in a low-income situation being able to experiment with and use a full development experience without having to upfront invest in computing power?
Have you tried any of this tooling? It's hard to notice that I'm not in VS Code at times. I'd be curious what you find so dystopic.
- Nullabillity 8y ago> Why is that? Did I say everyone had to adopt it? Given the overall trend towards SaaS I expect tooling vendors to try to enforce this whenever they think they can get away with it. By working on or using these projects you're giving them more ammunition, even if your intentions are to just add another option. > You don't think there's value in someone in a low-income situation being able to experiment with and use a full development experience without having to upfront invest in computing power? And it's better that they get stuck paying rent to some cloud vendor just to access their editor? I'm all for making stuff more accessible, but this is the same nonsense as FB's "Free Basics".
- colemickens 8y agoI don't get it. Theia runs on my home machine, my home cluster, or runs standalone just like any other editor. Everything I've mentioned are fully OSS projects (edit: GitPod has a bit of secret sauce for the workspace functionality, but Che has that, too). If anything, my goal in all of my software choices is user empowerment and I refuse to build or use anything proprietary or tied to a single cloud. My only exceptions are Plex (I'm working on replacing it) and Windows/games on a single machine. There's no reason that a browser based editor has to mean lock-in, and the current landscape doesn't support such gloom, in my opinion.