Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code

Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by harikb on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:47PM (#26369525)

I use both. IntelliJ being a paid personal subscription. I like both. But VsCode excels in their remote editing capabilities. Sometimes I work on code that will only compile on a Linux and I am on a Mac. It is not just remote debugging - the whole environment including language server works flawlessly via remote while making you feel like local development.

It is good for two good IDEs to survive. I don’t want one of them to win. There is room for two.

I only wish the opensource development model of plugins (for both IntelliJ and VsCode) doesn’t come to bite us one day with a rogue developer inserting malware. The whole review/reputation system should be like Apple App Store

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by punjabisingh on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:52PM (#26373249)

VS Code Remote Containers is another cool feature. You can develop inside any Docker container locally. This could essentially mirror whatever image you have deployed into Kubernetes, GKE, GCS, etc.

Ref: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by thu2111 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:54AM (#26375170)

Worth noting that IntelliJ latest beta has this feature as well. You can remote run/debug in remote docker containers and WSL2 VMs.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by reader_mode on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:54PM (#26369573)

This right here is what could get me to switch.

I could theoretically host an IDE on a workstation and develop from anywhere with a browser.

Unfortunately it's not ideal yet - remote editor wouldn't let me touch files not owned by session user (even when I could sudo) and similar issues.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by hansvm on Saturday March 06, 2021 @03:05PM (#26370100)

I still mostly just SSH onto a workstation for any of my personal work, but every month or two I'll check out the latest batch of self-hosted remote IDEs. My favorite by far (with caveats -- a few of your favorite extensions have licensing issues, and the mobile UI is garbage) is a fork of VS Code designed for doing exactly that. Check out https://github.com/cdr/code-server.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by dineshdb on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:56AM (#26373529)

I went this route with code-server[1]. But later decided against it because some shortcuts don't work in the browser. Also installing and managing code-server on those VMs had started becoming a chore.

I am using remote-ssh instead. Hassle-free and works like charm.

Can't comment on sudo issue because I mostly log in using root.

[1]: https://github.com/cdr/code-server [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

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