What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
These days, launching applications means navigating an endless sea of complexity. We felt this pain at Google, so we started Project IDX, an experimental new initiative aimed at bringing your entire full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow to the cloud.
Project IDX gets you into your dev workflow in no time, backed by the security and scalability of Google Cloud.
Project IDX lets you preview your full-stack, multiplatform apps as your users would see them, with upcoming support for built-in multi-browser web previews, Android emulators, and iOS simulators.
As a Vim fanatic, I can’t say I’ll ever feel comfortable working in a browser, but some parts of IDX seem interesting. I wonder what the implications are for proprietary code.
I do think it solves an interesting problem where you’re working on your desktop and decide to move to your laptop and continue working on the same codebase, but don’t want to commit early so you can pull down the changes to your laptop.
It reminds me vaguely of Shells.
Hell no, no way I’d trust Google with my code. Personal or otherwise. Let me guess this would work only in Chrome.
Hell no, no way I’d trust Google with my code. Personal or otherwise.
Ditto. But at the risk of playing devil’s advocate, if you were writing free software code you were going to stick on a code forge somewhere anyway, would you still be against it?
Are there Google services that only work in Chrome? I don’t use any of them, so I don’t know. I do know Google is generally less annoying than Microsoft in that department.
Are there Google services that only work in Chrome?
this is the gateway to this
I do know Google is generally less annoying than Microsoft in that department.
how this? through Firefox I experience ms websites the same as with edge. google websites? experience is full of small differences from chrome
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how this? through Firefox I experience ms websites the same as with edge. google websites? experience is full of small differences from chrome
Firefox is my main browser. In my experience, Microsoft services don’t work at all on Firefox. I can’t say I use much of either company’s services, but Google tends to be more lax in some departments. For example, the Google Pixel is the only Android device that allows you to securely unlock the bootloader and install another operating system on it, rather than forcing you to root the device.
I’m not a fan of either company, but I get the impression Google is less actively hostile toward their customers than Microsoft. For the most part.
Microsoft don’t allow Bing chat to run in anything but Edge. I don’t know if there are others, but that’s the one I’ve noticed recently.
What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
What if your dev environment could disappear completely one day when we get bored of maintaining it after it doesn’t immediately displace github?
What if your dev experience was entirely in the cloud?
No. Just no.
Fuck no.
Cringe. Not everything needs to be offloaded to someone else’s computer.
And frankly, why would I pay some sort of fee (which they will eventually charge, even if they don’t right now) for the “privilege” of having rustc fight for execution time on a vCPU somewhere in California?
Every day that passes I lean further towards pursuing a career in embedded.
These days, launching applications means navigating an endless sea of complexity.
- Meta + D
- “vsco”
- Enter
Damn, I’m exhausted, why does launching an application have to be so hard?
I imagine they mean launching in more of a release sense (IE: Announcing the launch of new app XYZ). I sure hope so, anyways.
Probably, I don’t really know how a web IDE would make it any easier but perhaps that’s because of a lack of personal experience.
It’s selling itself as more than an IDE. The idea is to have templates for common languages/frameworks. Ideally, this would mean not having to learn how to init a project in a given framework, not having to learn the build tools, not having to learn deployment, ci/cd, etc. Just open this new webapp, pick a framework, develop, and click a “launch” button to have it spin up in GCP.
