Eclipse Theia 1.0 -- Visual Studio Code Competitor?

The Eclipse foundation have just released Theia 1.0, a new desktop and cloud base IDE very similar to Visual Studio Code. In fact it's so similar it can use Visual Studio Extensions.

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[renatocann]

Man I don't know you find time to seek out, research, test and review so many engines/IDEs/platforms etc. etc. but thank you, seriously a great resource, hoping you crack 100K soon! :)

[ingframin]

It's not Sony-Ericsson, it's just Ericsson. The former was a joint venture to make cell phones, the latter is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the world, together with Cisco, Nokia, Huauwei and similar. They don't build consumer electronics but infrastructure equipment like LTE base stations or optical network devices. ;-)

[sw]

If Microsoft had been rebuilding VSCode using Eclipse Theia without anyone noticing and released it now... *THAT*, would be a what they call a pro gamer move

[Spirrwell]

Man, all I want is a fork of VSCode that is more heavily geared towards C++.

[JoussefJouda]

8:13 I really thought I got a message and looked at my smartphone -.-

[antonm_]

AFAIK, this is primarily targeted at tool makers for now; not yet for general consumption. Hence there is is no download for builds.

[sirnigelcogs]

So in other words it's a fork of VSCode with some customizations.

[gunther]

So if I got it right
Microsoft released Visual Studio Online back in 2013 including the cloud IDE Monaco (currently a standalone project)
Monaco project was then later used to create VS Code
Theia's github repo has references to monaco pretty much everywhere

Did Eclipse just fork VS Code and rebranded everything or what?

[repeedneve]

So far, I'm loving Theia. It took me awhile to learn enough about it to build a functional container. My initial goal was to get as feature rich of an IDE as vscode but in a browser but while having full backend control. Theia can do that although with a lot of configuration. A cool moment was running theia and vscodium on different windows with the same file open, I saved in vscodium and theia IDE updated at the same time! Syntax notes and everything!

[LucasHartmann]

I was looking for a way to give my students access to a few dev tools during the apocalypse, including usb-attached hardware. I had used cloud9 successfully before Amazon swallowed it, and was terribly sad for it's kinda-discontinuation. Now finally an alternative!

[joshuabradley]

I have actually asked the vscode team whether they will open source the online browser version of VS code - they said there are no plans to. Eclipse Theia's primary market will be enterprise cloud-based environments. I don't see the Eclipse Theia desktop ever beating VS Code.

[shumymikaball]

Reading from the comments, some clarification is required here. This is not an IDE, you don't switch from VSCode to Theia. This is an IDE framework with some architectural differences. You use Theia to build an IDE.

[Stormgnome]

Ericsson is, and has been for a very long time, one of the largest providers of telecommunication. It's just that they dropped their consumer electronics division when they sold off their part of Sony-Ericsson to Sony.

[cokn]

I literally just switched rider to vs code and you posted this video after few minutes

[jonmichaelgalindo]

I literally heard about this on April 1st, and I was like, "Please, please, please be real!"
Open source the things!

[asandax]

VS code is soon to be running on Github so I don't see the need for theia

[ЕвгенийКожевников-яя]

yey! thanks for a video! I've heard about this app yesterday for the first time, very interested about it, though there are not that much info about it yet :)

[ПавелПанченко-зщ]

I need an IDE, that could run somewhere in this world, handling that heavy java, and I could type my code in that IDE, working on cheap device and better battarey remotely. Tried recently eclipse theia. It took me to search for some hard-to-find documentation on just to run hello worlds. Making its debugger to work with java is still the challenge to get back in a future for me.

[lukostello]

You should do a video about flash point. The project could really use attention before flash gets booted out at the end of the year. We need help saving all the flash files

[isaiahinuwa]

As others mentioned, this is primarily for IDE builders not necessarily a product directly used by developers.

I could imagine this being helpful for all the SaaS vendors. SaaS is cool, but if you ever need to do customization, it's pain. Theia could help them develop an IDE for their platform that allows writing code, in either some normal language or DSL, directly in the browser, using a normal "filesystem"-type interface for organizing code, complete with code completion and all the other niceties.