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Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code -- Visual Studio Magazine (visualstudiomagazine.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The project home page.

The Github

Looks just like VS Code and I think it's still built on electron so take that as you will.

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[–] calcopiritus 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

Ease of plugin development is a major boon

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] calcopiritus 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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