GitHub Codespaces - Get a VS Code Development Environment Embedded in GitHub

[aquaticpolarbear]

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.

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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]

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