This already exists with github codespaces. https://github.com/features/codespaces
Sadly still limited to teams or enterprise users. I hope they open it up to individual contributors soon.
I've used Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io/) for this same scenario and it's available for anyone, way cheaper than Github Codespaces (possibly free depending on your usage), and it works really, really well. It felt like coding in the future.
We're starting to set up Gitpod for LAMP apps (e.g. Drupal), and it seems to work well with docker-in-docker running each part of that stack in their respective containers.
Geoff from Gitpod here. Come join https://www.gitpod.io/chat <3
I have been a very happy user of VSCode Remote - SSH. I have a VM in AWS with a GPU that I SSH into using VSCode, and I can use VSCode as if I were running it locally, with all of the computer power of a big server. Would highly recommend!
Geoff here from Gitpod. I have a bare metal machine that I remote into and use for supportive tasks such as (in a couple moments) exploring the TruNAS marketplace ecosystem. My primary computer these days is an iPad - see https://ghuntley.com/anywhere
There are big changes happening in development ecosystem which will happen faster then people realize. Soon more than 80% of the IDE market will have built-in functionality to connect to developer environments running in the cloud, while keeping the editing experience you are used to from your Desktop application in a very short time and Gitpod’s IDE architect went into detail about this over at http://gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history
Re:Vscode.dev
by moonchrome on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:47PM
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But this is already far better if you use code server [1] because you get your extensions/compilers/etc. running on the same host
This particular implementation (opening local files via browser) sounds rather useless.
Re:Vscode.dev
by gkfasdfasdf on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:27PM
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Saving state sounds pretty awesome indeed, but does it really work like that? From the blog post it sounded like it is opening files on the local filesystem.
I look at this as an opportunity for beginners to get started. Makecode does a good job for kids. But at some point all the current languages require you to install something or get an IDE going. Having the ability to do everything in the browser with little setup on an inexpensive Chromebook can go a long way for a beginner.
Off the top of my head: Complete remote state. Open vscode.dev on your desktop, work for a while. Then open vscode.dev on your Macbook Air later, and be in _exactly_ the same state. I don't mean, the same project, I mean the text cursor is at the same position in the same file with the same set of tabs open.
Need a GPU for some CUDA work? The only question is how many GPU cores would you like.
Could your next engineering hire's onboarding guide be: open vscode.dev/company/workspace, click the "run all tests" button. OK, you're done, please pick the topmost "ready to start" ticket from the queue.