Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated

Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by Smaug123 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:31PM (#36408418)

> DevPod is the first and only tool for creating and managing dev environments that does not require a heavyweight server-side setup.

I guess either "dev environment" means something different to what I understand by the term, or Nixpkgs is considered a "heavyweight server-side setup"?

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by earthling8118 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:56PM (#36408790)

Well you see if they acknowledged nix then they wouldn't be able to claim to be the first.

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by gentele on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:02PM (#36408879)

Haha, spicy. We definitely don't want to overlook nix. It's a great tool. We do mean something different with "developer environment" in that context of this quoted sentence. I'm not sure if nix will help you much if you want to connect your VS Code to a remote VM or container to work inside of that environment. We'll work on rewording this though to make things clearer :)

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by Smaug123 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:13PM (#36409012)

"Containerised" would be less ambiguous, I think.

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by gentele on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:47PM (#36409485)

Oh yeah, that would make it clearer! Thanks

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by Rapzid on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:21PM (#36412125)

I'm sure you can find a narrow enough definition; I believe in you.

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by jaxn on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:46PM (#36413349)

I also don't see how this is different from devcontainers, which are like codespaces, but without it being hosted on a server.

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by gentele on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:59PM (#36414236)

That's exactly the difference. You don't need to pay for codespaces and are locked into 1 cloud provider. You can use whatever cloud you want with DevPod

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Re:Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated by mkl on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:48AM (#36416040)

That sounds the same as dev containers, so it can't be the difference.

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