Comment on Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE

• Sigmatics@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are talking about transmitting every bit of code you write to the internet. Go ahead if you want that, I don’t

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  • jim_stark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am not saying otherwise. But do we still have a say?

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    • firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes. It is still entirely possible to run VSCode or VSCodium locally without any of that cloud crap.

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      • JackBruh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also VSCodium is entirely Open Source.

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      • jim_stark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True, I myself prefer VS Codium but how many people use it? And some site like Coursera have VSCode on the web and it can’t be changed to VSCodium.

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• philm@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it good technically though? Or is it just really popular because it’s so well maintained and extensible?

  I think the main reason vscode is so popular is, because there aren’t really good native alternatives (e.g. I wouldn’t compare e.g. vim because it’s kind of a different target audience).

  So maybe something like zed or so will take the reign of this class of editors, but we’ll see, I just hope it’s not yet another electron or DOM based editor, DOM is bad enough in the web already…

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  • jim_stark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just hope it’s not yet another electron or DOM based editor

    Unfortunately, yes.

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