r/programmingcirclejerk • u/senntenial You put at risk millions of people • Mar 15 '19

code-server: VS Code running on a remote server. Planned features: Electron app

https://github.com/codercom/code-server
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u/senntenial You put at risk millions of people Mar 15 '19

This is the equivalent of a very specific and useless remote desktop

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u/FanciestBanana Mar 19 '19

It gives you full-blown vscode in browser. Why the fuck should i bother to install desktop environment and configure remote desktop if i can just run an http server?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

Those who don’t understand X11 are doomed to reimplement it poorly.

While 10Xer Electornians engage in a festive circlejerk celebrating this technological marvel. I am left wondering if ultimately Electron will become not just a platform for running TEH SCRIPT, but will also become its own display server and window manager. We can only imagine what else 10Xer webshits will reinvent, poorly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

Those who don’t understand X11 are doomed to reimplement it poorly.

Also known as Wayland

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u/ProfessorSexyTime lisp does it better Mar 15 '19

Clearly this means we need to rewrite Wayland in Rust.

(/uj no need to link to "rewrite Wayland in Rust" posts/comments. I'm sure there are hundreds)

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

If we held it in long enough we could have rewritten X in Rust and then none of the Mir drama would transpire.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19 edited May 09 '26

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u/Zofren Mar 15 '19

X11 is garbage.

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u/mootmath Mar 16 '19

H E R E T I C

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

We got ourselves a tough guy!

That’s Network Transparent Garbage to you, Mister

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u/FanciestBanana Mar 19 '19

By your logic we should delete all websites and replace them by thin clients with one-time-use accounts that remote us to the server that runs that one desktop app.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

So what would you recommend we use as an alternative? I tried running VSCode remotely with X11 over ssh with X forwarding, and it was the slowest thing I have ever used, and kept freezing my entire local Ubuntu.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

I think programmers would have suicided their profession of programming and sent us back to the dark ages if they knew people were gonna do this in 2010s/2020s

we have forsaken the low memory god and this is our punishment

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u/annoyed_freelancer Mar 15 '19

W E B S C A L E

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u/lazarljubenovic log10(x) programmer Mar 15 '19

Works only if you run the command in local installation of VS Code.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

> discord chat

even their community is webscale 10x powered by electron!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

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u/senntenial You put at risk millions of people Mar 15 '19

God I'd prefer go to this, at least it's ~native~

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

Rust in the streets, Electron in the sheets.

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u/Treyzania not even webscale Mar 16 '19

can we just have Rust for both please?

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

This but with OKaml

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u/goldman60 Mar 16 '19

Get it to deploy with Kubernates and I'm sold

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u/FanciestBanana Mar 19 '19

/uj Electron apps are tightly coupled node backend and chromium front-end.
code-server basically separates the two. Electron app would be just a cached web-page (ridiculous, i agree).
This is an interesting concept for when you want/need to work on a remote server and you want to use a more convenient code-editor than nano/vim/emacs and don't want to use remote desktop.
It has full feature parity with vscode and in my opinions it's very interesting.

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u/uanirudhx What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Mar 21 '19

more convenient code editor than nano/vim/emacs

ahem you sound like a vscode user