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The reason I use VSCode is Code Server[0]. It is certainly not as powerful as IntelliJ, but the I have to get used to it because the web-based IDE is a must for me.

By the way, unless my English is terribly bad, calling someone lunatic for their choice of IDE may not be a great idea.

[0] https://github.com/coder/code-server

I put code-server[1] on a Linux box of mine, which gives me a whole proper IDE in the browser. I use it a lot on my Boox tablet with a bluetooth keyboard and it works great.

[1] https://github.com/coder/code-server

> Just dropping in to second VSCode remote (assuming you meant code-server).

Yes and no. It is the native VSCode remote server (a closed source Microsoft version using SSH: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh), but it is also called code-server, which is often confused with coder's code-server (https://github.com/coder/code-server)

Also could install a browser based VSCode on that remote server and access that.

https://github.com/coder/code-server

You can't run your code locally, but VSCode (but NOT VSCodium sadly) has a set of remote development plugins (ssh, containers, etc) that allow you to edit locally, run on a remote server.

Also see code-server (https://github.com/coder/code-server) for another option.

Got a free tier you can play around with at [0] , and a few examples you can check out over at [1].

We've also got a zero-config (in-browser!) version of the whole thing [2], using code-server [3].

[0] https://lightrun.com/free

[1] https://github.com/lightrun-platform/lightrun/tree/main/exam...

[2] https://playground.lightrun.com

[3] https://github.com/coder/code-server

Are you basically reselling hosted https://github.com/coder/code-server?

Darn. Maybe the solution is to use vs-code client in the browser? Like vscode.dev or https://github.com/coder/code-server ? It limits what keyboard shortcuts and extensions are available, but at least it's in a secure sandbox on the client side.

Code server might be what you're looking for: https://github.com/coder/code-server

The caveat with the above is that you'll need something to host it. You could use a computer on your local network or a VPS of some kind (DigitalOcean, Linode, etc all have cheaper plans for hosting).

Once you get Code Server running, you can add the URL to your homepage to remove the Safari URL bar.

code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server works fairly well and can be saved to the home screen as a web applet to get rid of the browser URL bar. Their are a few UI issues related to touch but it has served well enough for some light work.

You can also use a remote apps like Rainway/TeamViewer/RDP/VNC somewhat successfully to get a more full desktop experience. Unfortunately they all seem to have their own input caveats that take some getting used to.

I am personally waiting for Parsec to release native iPadOS and tvOS clients as it provides the best experience I have found.

It seems like the gaming oriented remote desktop apps (Rainway https://rainway.com/, Parsec https://parsec.app/) are the best though as the latency on the more traditional ones is somewhat of a hindrance.

USB/Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support tends to work okay, but the simulated touch mouse makes getting used to things tough. If you have not tried using iPad OS with a mouse I suggest you look into before making a purchase as it is a fairly limiting experience.

Code-server: https://github.com/coder/code-server

what do you actually want to do? I have https://github.com/coder/code-server and https://jupyter.org/hub running on a PI, along with tailscale on the ipad and pi. This allows the IPAD to have a full editor, and a shell onto the pi.

I'm not sure this is going to work for you though, it seems to make you go through a tunnel service that MS is running on vscode.dev. Look at the flow they describe and it has you getting an auth code after github login and using that code on vscode.dev to access the server instance.

If you haven't seen it already coder has a nice VS code server instance that runs like a traditional self-hosted server app and could likely be run in an airgapped environment: https://github.com/coder/code-server

While not a Microsoft offering, code-server[1] already exists and works pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/coder/code-server

they did already: https://github.com/coder/code-server

works great, even on small server machines!

edit: as pointed out by others, this is not actually by MS, but works just fine anyway. TIL!

Possible alternative: https://github.com/coder/code-server

Basically lets you use VS Code from a browser. Integrated terminal works, Git integration, and many extensions work too

The alternative is actually possible and works reasonably well from the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server

> I can use my editor over ssh and edit anywhere, I don't need a GUI to even be installed on the system where I have all of my cores and RAM for compiling the kernel,

I can use VS Code in the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server

> it starts up instantly,

I launch my editor once a day. Why do you need to keep killing and starting your editor?

> and it's completely free and open source,

OK, so is VS Code, or at least the OSS version, which has all the key features anyway.

> not driven by a corporation,

So this is your philosophy.

> and there's decades of documentation on how to use it.

Most of it out of date, probably.

> I guess it's the systems developer in me

Guess what? I'm a systems developer too! I also work on the kernel! But I use VS Code.

> that can't fathom someone that wants to use a tool to make a living without understanding it fully and being able to tweak it to their exact liking over the course of their entire career

VS Code is open source, so there's nothing stopping me from diving in if I want to. And it's also highly extensible.

Now that I've answered all the supposed benefits you list about (neo)vim, I have one question:

Can (neo)vim show text in two different font sizes? Or fonts? Like, what if I want my documentation popups to show up in a sans-serif font? No, don't tell me I have to open up the documentation in a browser or whatever. I want it in the popup.

Some things to look at:

    - Kodex
    - GoCoEdit
    - Textastic (pair with Working Copy)
    - Code Editor (unsupported, formerly Coda)
    - Codea

And if you’re online:

    - https://github.com/coder/code-server

(see: https://coder.com/docs/coder/latest/comparison )

I haven't had a chance to test this yet but this is fantastic to see.

Anything like this that progresses the cross-platform remote model that we now have with VSC, particularly if the endpoint is fast and memory-efficient, is really important, because of the variety of dev environments.

What I would _really_ like, of course, is an iPad editor that could do the same.

If you could make an iPad editor that has VSC-style remoting, that is genuinely a killer app right now for a lot of people.

That would be "just enough" editor for me so I could travel for a few days and still do a couple of hours of work here and there, without the laptop commitment.

I am not big on iOS subscription apps and I'm budget-constrained, but I'd pay $50 per year (probably more, and I figure I wouldn't be alone), without hesitation, for a fast remoting iOS editor that had 80% of the functionality of VSCode Remote and had a viable built in browser to avoid the process switch.

The code-server project definitely works for this, but something a bit more native would be amazing.

https://github.com/coder/code-server

For PWAs, you can "install" the app to your machine / phone which gives it its own icon and launches it in its own window. This also allows it to override most default shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl+W, Cmd/Ctrl+T etc.) I use this with https://github.com/coder/code-server on my personal server and it's a way better experience for me than mucking around with SSH / SFTP plugins.

I've been running stuff like code server [1] for some workshop I held recently and I was building simple .NET projects there without any issues.

I wouldn't pay $40/year because the value of having a random instance up with domain/ssl and nginx running all the time has been handy many times so far - worth way more than what I pay for the machine. At this point ngrok would be a downgrade for my use case, but if it was something like 20$/year when I was looking into it I probably wouldn't have bothered setting it up.

[1] https://github.com/coder/code-server