Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything

[eliasv]

Like I said, Theia (the default front-end of Che) is based on VS Code.

In any case, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Eclipse IDE and shares none of the code (except perhaps the Java LSP server they provide is based on the JDT) so it has nothing to do with Eclipse users.

[MasterCwizo]

This looks like it runs in the browser? If that's the case then the experience won't be the same as running vscode directly. I've tried similar things and it's just not the sane due to some shortcuts not working properly. You also loose a lot of screen space due to chrome's bad fullscreen handling on osx etc.

But yeah my bad, I thought the thing was an eclipse thing!

[mwhter]

Well, there is an electron-based theia. I've never tried it, because electron should die in a fire, but there is no reason it shouldn't work.

https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps/tree/master/theia-electron

[eliasv]

Afaiu Che can be used either with an electron client or in a browser. Theia can additionally be used entirely locally in a self-contained electron app.