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by manigandham 2273 days ago
Product page: https://theia-ide.org/

Release blog post: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/theia-1-0-finally-a-good-browser...

They claim it's a framework for building domain-specific IDEs that uses the same extension framework and language server protocols developed by the VS team.

However VS Code already offers a desktop installer and runs in the cloud like VSOnline and CodeSandbox. And I'm not sure why a "neutral" extension marketplace matters because you can always download and install the extensions separately.