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, li

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/ 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.