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How would GitHub or Bitbucket go about "installing" Microsoft's or Apple's proprietary tools on their website?
by b3morales 5y ago
How would GitHub or Bitbucket go about "installing" Microsoft's or Apple's proprietary tools on their website?
- jodrellblank 5y agoOn Microsoft Github, in a repository such as https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node press `.` (the full stop key) and it will take you away to github.dev, load Microsoft's VS Code in-browser to view and edit code with VS Code plugins and highlighting. And from there you can use GitHub Codespace to "develop in a cloud-hosted, customizable environment" to run and debug.
- junon 5y agoAnd you can't even hit the back button. Incredible.
- junon 5y agoApologies, I just read my comment again... To be clear, I'm talking about the VSCode app. Once you visit it they hijack the browser history and hitting back causes the entire app to reload, over and over again, until you manually drop down the history menu and jump 2+ pages back. I realize now my comment sounded rude and pointed toward the parent (not at all the intent) - I can't edit it so here I am again.
- grimgrin 5y agohit it twice. is that the point? def not, but i got it to go back
- junon 5y agoPerhaps I wasn't fast enough, but it didn't work for me.
- jacquesm 5y agoGitHub == Microsoft and has been for a while.
- eternalban 5y agoThey can do their primary directive to act as public centralized vcs repositories. The proposition here is that the IDE provides dev process tooling so you are in fact collaborating with your team, e.g. reviewing your code, but Github (Microsoft) and other centralized services are not necessary and not included in the activity. And yes, if AWS etc goes down, your IDEs will continue to work and you can continue to collaborate.