Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server
gitpod.ioWhat's up with the title? Assuming they're not sending a cake due to covid and remote working etc - makes it seem very clickbaitish.
It's in reference to this story (from 63 days ago): "Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces (gitpod.io)" [0], original article [1]
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405026 [1]: https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
Maybe related to Firefox/Chrome cake history...
Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here (and the person who was behind cake to GitHub Codespaces). Indeed it is exactly related to that. Always was a fan of the idea of cake being shipped between product teams and the launch of Codespaces was a perfect chance to start a new tradition!
I would be v.happy to send cake (or macaroons) to the VSCode team as well but don’t have contacts. If you are in the team lemme know.
I believe that tradition was started in 2006 when Microsoft send Firefox dev team a cake
https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-moz...
Like others mentioned, this story seems to be reference to Gitpod sending GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces.
If anyone is curious, user “tomvault” submitted this post with the following title:
> Microsoft open-sourcing VS Code Server and Gitpod won’t send them a cake
… which was later changed to:
> Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server
There is another story behind this https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cake
Ok that's cute, but hn guidelines say the the post title should match the published title. The flexibility is for necessary shortening or scrubbing clickbait, not for editorializing.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?
Another flavor of the "focused startup vs. big company portfolio" story. A small, scrappy team can do incredible things and find product-market fit despite having a gargantuan competitor. A big company can lose the plot with big staffing overheads, internal politics, and being tugged in a million different directions by users/customers. Of course a big company can also be laser-focused and leverage their vast cash sums and engineering weight to dominate the space. But in my experience, that's pretty rare.
Not that different from gitlab? There are some (enough) Enterprise needs that MS is unable or uninterested to do.
Usually stuff like on-premise( at lower price than what MS) or significant customization or some features/extensibility.
At MS scale these are not viable things to do, but smaller companies don't have the same concerns.
Also getting bought by MS or another large player is always an option.
GitHub isn't the only VCS provider. There's GitLab and SourceHut and there will likely be more in the future as standards coalesce. That's where open source thrives: strong and proven standards. Once VCS hosting becomes fairly standardized then Open Source will take over and the innovation cycle will start again.
continue to drive open source. continue to believe there's a non-proprietary community worth investing in. continue moving the ball forward & making microsoft also have to keep open sourcing.
it's less about what's their survival plan, and more about what the rest of all of us are going to do with vscode taking over the planet.
I couldn't find an announcement from Microsoft about this, but it did happen in this commit:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/822f995357f725216...
Yup. If you switch to the ‘Insiders’ channel (account settings panel on the dashboard) on Gitpod then you will be running these bits on Gitpod.
Do you still need to use the proprietary version of VSCode (i.e., not VSCodium) to actually use the client-side features?
ok I didn't know they opened that. that's wonderful.