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by jeroenhd 1417 days ago
I don't think I understand what this is actually doing. It's being pitched as some kind of new way to develop Javascript inside the browser, but VS Code is already available in the browser?

What does a web container actually "contain"?
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epolanski 1417 days ago
VSC in the browser effectively connects to some VM via web sockets and computation happens remotely. This I think leverages your own computer to do computation.
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jeroenhd 1417 days ago
It only works remotely in Firefox, in Chrome (with its arguably questionable filesystem API). Plus, running the files in WASM is also what happens in these containers.
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mr_toad 1417 days ago
It’s running Node and NPM and some other stuff as well, which makes it more like a full dev environment than just an editor. It only runs JavaScript though (I think).
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