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Visual Studio Code Remote

55 points by chenzhekl 7y ago

iamnothere 7y ago
FINALLY. This is great news. Now we won't have to mess around with Git Bash, or MSYS, or VMs, or the other hacks people use to get a decent dev environment set up. I don't love developing on Windows but for some projects it's the only reasonable option. This should make Windows+VSCode a decent place for getting work done.
- bpye 7y ago
  I'm honestly thrilled to be able to get rid of the crap solutions I've always used with mounting a directory over ssh or smb. Especially when working with limited resource devices. Now, of course there is still going to be some limitation there as a significant chunk of code would now be running on that device, something potentially like a Raspberry Pi, but I suspect it's still a much better experience. (I work for Microsoft - not VSCode)
infogulch 7y ago
This is awesome! I wonder if it's possible to load everything from the remote environment, including extensions, themes, settings, etc. I didn't see anything about that on the page. This could be cool as a super easy way to make a very consistent portable development environment across platforms. This could be very empowering for classroom or casual learning environments where your users / students can just connect from any platform, any computer, and everything is ready and waiting. No environment setup, no OS issues, no platform-specific issues, no installing dependencies, no problem supporting old / weak computers, no multiple tutorials. It would also be extremely portable, users could log in from their personal laptop or desktop, shared computers, from their work computer, or from a classroom computer and they would all load in exactly where they left it on the last computer. Something else that's interesting, and gets a little closer to that dream above, is code server [1], which goes all the way to just embedding vscode in it's entirety into a chrome web app hosted from a container running full Ubuntu. The two approaches are somewhat converging, or are at least on a very similar trajectory, it'll be interesting to watch as they mature. [1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server

55 points by chenzhekl 7y ago

FINALLY. This is great news. Now we won't have to mess around with Git Bash, or MSYS, or VMs, or the other hacks people use to get a decent dev environment set up. I don't love developing on Windows but for some projects it's the only reasonable option. This should make Windows+VSCode a decent place for getting work done.

bpye 7y ago
I'm honestly thrilled to be able to get rid of the crap solutions I've always used with mounting a directory over ssh or smb. Especially when working with limited resource devices. Now, of course there is still going to be some limitation there as a significant chunk of code would now be running on that device, something potentially like a Raspberry Pi, but I suspect it's still a much better experience. (I work for Microsoft - not VSCode)

infogulch 7y ago

This is awesome! I wonder if it's possible to load everything from the remote environment, including extensions, themes, settings, etc. I didn't see anything about that on the page. This could be cool as a super easy way to make a very consistent portable development environment across platforms. This could be very empowering for classroom or casual learning environments where your users / students can just connect from any platform, any computer, and everything is ready and waiting. No environment setup, no OS issues, no platform-specific issues, no installing dependencies, no problem supporting old / weak computers, no multiple tutorials. It would also be extremely portable, users could log in from their personal laptop or desktop, shared computers, from their work computer, or from a classroom computer and they would all load in exactly where they left it on the last computer. Something else that's interesting, and gets a little closer to that dream above, is code server [1], which goes all the way to just embedding vscode in it's entirety into a chrome web app hosted from a container running full Ubuntu. The two approaches are somewhat converging, or are at least on a very similar trajectory, it'll be interesting to watch as they mature. [1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server https://github.com/cdr/code-server