GitLab team member here. Thanks for the feedback.
It would be great if you could share your insights and feedback on the public epic for the strategy for remote development: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7419
GitLab PM and OP author here.
Thanks for linking that epic @john_cogs! You can also see the direction page for remote development: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/editor/remote_deve...
We're looking to a future where the Web IDE earns the "IDE" distinction, and you're absolutely right - for smaller edits, we'll continue to have a lightweight Web Editor.
VSCode is really an IDE, not a text editor. While it's not built for one particular language in mind, with vast majority of languages it offers all the features you would get from an IDE.
Re:The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
by infinityio on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:28AM
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Not sure it'll end up as a cloud offering and instead just a lightweight desktop app, but have you looked into Jetbrains Fleet (w/ Spaces)? Not released yet, but it has potential
Imho, that’s Web Text Editor. It’d be helpful to not mix junior an “editor” with an “IDE”.
If someone at Gitlab is listening then it’d actually be a differentiator to make an IDE (and charge for it) to also those platforms where having a beefy laptop becomes a requirement (eg Android) and developers on those platforms, or a lot of them like me, would love to have a platform online that’s largely independent of a development machine.