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by _benj 2269 days ago
If this is intended to be a VSCode alternative, where are the download area? Why the strong emphasis on cloud? A version 1.0 with no package released? need top run it on docker?

I don't want to sound negative, I would really want to download it an try it... but from what I see in a quick glance, they want me to setup a whole cloud to use this, not how I envision an editor that is trying to take on the most popular editor nowadays
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lobo42 2268 days ago
Theia is a platform to allow building desktop and browser IDEs, not a product in itself. You can use it through gitpod.io on any GitHub or GitLab project.

The strong emphasize on browser/cloud is because we believe we have finally built a browser-based IDE that is as good as the most popular desktop IDE (VS Code). Having solved that cloud based IDEs are going to be the normal in a couple of years and will naturally complete our devops pipelines.

See also: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/continuous-dev-environment-in-dev...

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aDfbrtVt 2269 days ago
Really odd that RedHat is a part of the development group but I can't find a package for RHEL.

Link to the Docker https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps#theia-docker

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majkinetor 2269 days ago
https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps#theia-desktop
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_benj 2269 days ago
TBD :)
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oaiey 2269 days ago
Theia is a platform to build IDEs not an IDE. And it is focused on cloud usage and not desktop based usage.

At least that what I read and understand.

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