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Used this recently and liked it. I don't use VS Code but I see how this is a valuable addition to the ecosystem. Not only does it provide an actually open alter

by bogwog 2y ago

Used this recently and liked it. I don't use VS Code but I see how this is a valuable addition to the ecosystem. Not only does it provide an actually open alternative independent from Microsoft, the project has produced open-vsx.org as an open registry for VS Code + Theia compatible extensions. Also, the main focus of Theia (and Eclipse in general) is to provide a framework/base for creating a custom IDE product, not necessarily to provide a working IDE out of the box. This means e.g. companies providing custom IDEs for their embedded platforms can now use a more modern VS Code style base instead of the ancient Eclipse desktop editors.

appplication 2y ago
Competition is good, and I haven’t used this yet so I’ll withhold judgement on this. But my experience with vscode hasn’t been particularly nice, so my enthusiasm for it as a base is a bit mixed. I’ve found it to be pretty slow and often buggy for e.g. syntax highlighting, when compared to something like pycharm. It’s likely I’m just an idiot who doesn’t know how to set up my extensions/config, but if it takes some high level of intellect to do so then I think it’s still fair to call it a poor UX.
seltzered_ 2y ago
> "The main focus of Theia (and Eclipse in general) is to provide a framework/base for creating a custom IDE product, not necessarily to provide a working IDE out of the box." Yep. An important repo Theia has is the 'Theia Blueprint' repo so one wanting to make a custom IDE has a good place out of the box to start. FWIW, I prototyped gluing together existing plaintext accounting tools (Beancount, Fava, vscode-beancount) under Eclipse Theia a while back [0]. The potential of using a vscode-style base still seems a promising for certain applications but there's a learning curve to figuring out how the various dependencies and quirks of building an electron app work. [0]: https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage

by bogwog 2y ago

appplication 2y ago

Competition is good, and I haven’t used this yet so I’ll withhold judgement on this. But my experience with vscode hasn’t been particularly nice, so my enthusiasm for it as a base is a bit mixed. I’ve found it to be pretty slow and often buggy for e.g. syntax highlighting, when compared to something like pycharm. It’s likely I’m just an idiot who doesn’t know how to set up my extensions/config, but if it takes some high level of intellect to do so then I think it’s still fair to call it a poor UX.

seltzered_ 2y ago

> "The main focus of Theia (and Eclipse in general) is to provide a framework/base for creating a custom IDE product, not necessarily to provide a working IDE out of the box." Yep. An important repo Theia has is the 'Theia Blueprint' repo so one wanting to make a custom IDE has a good place out of the box to start. FWIW, I prototyped gluing together existing plaintext accounting tools (Beancount, Fava, vscode-beancount) under Eclipse Theia a while back [0]. The potential of using a vscode-style base still seems a promising for certain applications but there's a learning curve to figuring out how the various dependencies and quirks of building an electron app work. [0]: https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage https://github.com/seltzered/beancolage