> "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 o

> "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