Why can't I write code inside my browser?

Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by ccmcarey on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:22AM (#25788713)

Exactly this. It's frustrating reading this article and the author's comments in this thread as it's apparent that they don't want to put the smallest amount of effort into learning something that is by its nature complicated.

They don't want to have to google what $PATH does, they want the browser to come with an IDE (and massively ramping up its complexity because why?) instead of actually downloading an IDE.

The author has weirdly treated the problem of not knowing something as that it is wrong that they need to know it.

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Re:Why can't I write code inside my browser? by oefrha on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:31AM (#25788774)

> The author has weirdly treated the problem of not knowing something as that it is wrong that they need to know it.

Yes, that’s TFA in a nutshell.

The title is deceptively “normal” though, so lots of people are making good faith attempts at answering the question. Except cloud9, code-server or whatever aren’t what TFA asks for, since you still need to understand what’s going on in the server to use them effectively, you’re only offloading storage and computations to a remote machine.

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