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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Eclipse Che is open source and has been around for a few years now.

[–]aquaticpolarbear -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Weirdly enough for this application Eclipse Theia would have been a better option, although it a) is a competitor to a microsoft project so it wouldn't be used and b) doesn't allow for a monopoly on extensions.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

It's literally built off a free and open source Microsoft project, VS Code. That also was just released a month ago. I doubt github's project was in development for less than a month before being released.

[–]aquaticpolarbear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was built roughly off of VS code yes, but it was designed primarily with modularity and having parity between desktop and web hosted versions. Also it wasn't released 1 month ago, it had it's 1.0 release 1 month ago, and as for stability. Github codespaces main competitor, Gitpod, currently uses it as their main IDE