[noname120]

This is an interesting development since there is already a multitude of online IDE's that are based on Visual Studio Code:

- StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/

- Theia: https://www.theia-ide.org/

- Coder: https://coder.com/

Overall, this is a prime example of one of the synergies that Microsoft was able to create from the GitHub acquisition which was the missing puzzle piece. Microsoft now has control over a complete software development pipeline: a development platform (Windows), an IDE (vscode, vs), a code versioning host (GitHub), continuous integration (Azure Pipeline), deployment (Azure).

If Microsoft can leverage its control over this complete chain to make the whole experience integrated and effortless as it's doing with Visual Studio Online here, it could well take over the market, especially in corporate environments.

[sytse]

GitLab's web IDE is also based on a Visual Studio Code component, the Monaco Editor https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

The VS Code Remote Development extensions look nice too but are not open source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19841089

[greggyb]

They had those things prior to GitHub as well. It's had a few names, but is currently named Azure DevOps and was previously Visual Studio Online.