openvsx VS openvscode-server

It is incredibly difficult to assess the quality of projects in depth.

I tried doing this for Open-VSX extensions for handling justfile:

https://open-vsx.org/?search=justfile&sortBy=relevance&sortO...

  2.4k nefrob.vscode-just

Why not publish it on https://open-vsx.org for Windsurf and other forks?

For context, Open VSX is run by the Eclipse foundation, which also develops the Eclipse Theia editor, which is basically a clone of VS Code (not a fork, like VS Codium).

The Open VSX registry is open source (https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx) and self-hostable, although I have no experience with that. I assume it's possible to host your own instance with the extensions you want instead of relying on the free public instance.

Personally I'm more of a Sublime guy, but people looking for an open VSC alternative should consider Theia over VSC forks. It seems like the smarter long term investment if you want to get out from Microsoft's control.

I was going to point this weird part of their comment too.

Reminder that the Open-VSX extension registry exists: https://open-vsx.org

Idk if they removed the malicious theme (or if they have it at all), but if MS isn't doing anything beyond just responding to user reports, you might as well switch to an open registry that probably does the same level of security work, and avoid giving them yet another monopoly.

https://open-vsx.org/

We also import your extensions automatically (safe guarding against the ones with Microsoft's licensed)

You can also just download in from the vscode marketplace webpage and drag and drop it in

> Microsoft also made its extension marketplace closed-source so we (and Cursor) have to hack our way through it.

For the marketplace, can you not use Open VSX [https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx]?

Despite being made to allow an app to be built with web technologies, most Electron apps become quite coupled to Electron and Node.js. When people started building cloud IDEs where Electron didn't make sense and you could just view the frontend in your browser, they couldn't use VS Code because of this coupling. Eventually, thanks to projects like openvscode-server, which patched VS Code to run as a normal web app in a Docker container, VS Code took many of these changes upstream and began to decouple VS Code from Electron.

We use the brilliant OpenVSCode Server from Gitpod.io to power our editor workspaces. This project pulls directly from Microsoft’s VS Code repository and makes it work within a container, accessed via a web browser. Everything will immediately feel familiar to you because it’s what you’ve been coding in for the last decade.

If you’ve ever wanted the flexibility of running VS Code directly in your browser, now’s the time to give it a try. After experimenting with various solutions, I’ve found a standout option: openvscode-server by github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server – a fork of Microsoft’s VS Code.

> Yeah, sadly there are entry level laptops cheaper than a phone or said monitor plus a keyboard and mouse

Many people already have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard lying around. They'll also have a phone already. Plus, there are very cheap docks where you can just slide your phone into a laptop shell, priced similarly to the worst and most awful Chromebooks imaginable.

> So nothing works offline.

You can run a vscode server on your phone (https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/releases). What's lacking is the VSCode GUI, so pointing a browser at http://[::1]:8080/ will work just fine.

This already exists!! https://www.gitpod.io/

The next part is the 'Public access' parameter which needs to be aligned with the DB Subnet Group configuration. When set to No, the provisioned ENI will only have Private IP. If you try to access it from the Internet, your PC or a cloud development environment such as Gitpod that would obviously not be accessible. However, if you set it to Yes, the ENI will also have a Public IP and a Public hostname (DNS endpoint). This settings can be changed without the need to re-provision the RDS which is quite handy.

https://www.gitpod.io/ does this

Not sure what .devcontainer means, but you can take a look to https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server or https://github.com/coder/code-server

I am using this project (https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server/) to run on my Linux box, then I can access it's server through my web browser.