Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
  • calcopiritus
    533·
    4 months ago

    Why would they copy VSCode including the aspect people hate most.

    Had they made it in a native gui I might actually consider it. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I just choose vscode.

    • Daxtron2
      300·
      4 months ago

      Ease of plugin development is a major boon

    • morrowind
      69·
      4 months ago

      Well it can’t really be a native gui and be cross platform.

      • calcopiritus
        200·
        4 months ago

        I meant native as in non-web. There are plenty of cross-platform GUI toolkits out there that don’t use JavaScript. Some of them native-looking even. But more than the looks, it’s about performance.

        • FizzyOrange
          20·
          4 months ago

          There aren’t many good cross platform GUI toolkits. I mean realistically is there anything other than Qt?