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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by kuschku on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:15AM (#33175811)
Distributed means you can run the editor UI and the actual backend on separate machines. One long-term goal of such deployments is developers just having a thin chromebook with the UI and the actual code being on a corporate server, like terminals and mainframes in ye olde days.

I believe this is a reaction to VS Code, which has supported this functionality for a while already.

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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by kevincox on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:47AM (#33176126)
Another big use case is running the "backend" inside a VM or container that has a well-defined set of dependencies installed while the host OS can be updated and managed by the user.
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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by woojoo666 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:15PM (#33184346)
But conventionally the word "distributed” is for apps running on multiple servers. Your definition makes every web app "distributed". And I feel like most of HN would disagree with calling Spotify Web a "distributed app"
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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by kuschku on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:32PM (#33185691)
It's not "my" definition, it used to be a very common definition.

e.g., quassel, an irc bouncer + client, used the same term since 2007.

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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by intelVISA on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:18PM (#33186015)
As you noted w/ VSCode (and others) this dev style can be done quite easily for free, what advantages does a vendor lock-in provide?
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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by kuschku on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:14AM (#33189925)
You'll get actually useful suggestions and refactoring abilities. VS Code is today still just a editor with syntax highlighting and very basic suggestions. Even with language servers it can't come close to what JetBrains does.

JetBrains first major product was an addon to improve the suggestion abilities of Visual Studio, and VS Code is a downgrade even compared to normal VS

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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by intelVISA on Friday October 14, 2022 @03:47PM (#33208023)
Interesting... I will have to check it out properly at some point then, thanks for the insight.
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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by yamtaddle on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:36PM (#33194759)
So... every X-Window application is "distributed"?

I'd not have described them that way.

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Re:JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Pre... by kuschku on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:44AM (#33202254)
Yes, that's what X-Windows was created for. The original goal was for terminals connected to large servers, where you'd have the application distributed with the UI on the terminal and the backend running on the remote server.
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