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Couldn't Google and Amazon just do the same?
by t0astbread 7y ago
Couldn't Google and Amazon just do the same?
- freehunter 7y agoAmazon already has a competitor, Cloud 9. I’ve been constantly surprised that Amazon and Red Hat have cloud IDEs but Microsoft didn’t.
- benologist 7y agoAmazon acquired Cloud9 which was for years open-source and self-hostable. Today I'm not sure what the licensing situation is, but one thing they did improve was integration with EC2 so you can specify what type of virtual machine you want.
- danielbarla 7y agoGiven that the engine driving VS Code (Monaco [1]) is MIT licensed, I'm sure they could. There are already a fair number of cloud-IDE-providers, like StackBlitz, based on Monaco. As an additional bit of trivia, it seems that Erich Gamma (of GoF patterns fame) had a significant hand in the development of Monaco [2]. There are a number of videos where he takes Scott Hanselman through the tech, back in 2014. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma