Re:GitLab Web IDE
by RhodesianHunter on Friday June 15, 2018 @09:29PM
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> other than as something to use as a quick fix embedded by a repo host
Which could very well be a determining feature in where people host or which Git provider they use.
Right, which is why I would love to see a browser that is both web-based and also offline. If either Sublime, VS Code or Atom get proper web-based support, that would be amazing. You can use your offline version on your computer, then jump to a web version when you're on a different computer, while still having all your settings and even extensions.
There's no reason an online hosted Web IDE can't work perfectly well in an offline mode too. Offline-capable Web apps are essentially a solved problem.
> Offline-capable Web apps are essentially a solved problem.
That may be true in theory. In practice "essentially" is an awfully long way from "absolutely", with offline support in many apps being either choppy or non-existent. Even the venerable Google Docs is something of a ####show when used offline, to the point where I gave up and went back to Office 365.
True, but Google Docs is old and Google doesn't seem to care about offline, so I would blame Google not the tech for that one.
Re:GitLab Web IDE
by ivan_burazin on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:37PM
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Web IDEs like ours (Codeanywhere) and C9 Have been around since before 2010...so we have been all around for a while. The Web IDE is a valid product and it has a use case (we have over 1.2M users), but not that all anticipated way back then.
My laptop is a tool I use every single day and have with me almost all of the time. I do not need internet connectivity to remain productive, which is a huge boon to me when travelling. An IDE that requires constant, reliable connectivity to work is therefore of little use to me.