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Theia IDE is compatible with VS Code APIs and can install and use VS Code extensions. Has additional APIs for customizations not available in VS Code.

Have you tried Theia IDE? Any assessments or experiences to share?

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Last I heard about was it when it was officially launched months back.
I gave it a try, it was immediately noticeable that it was worse than VSCode for me, so I just dropped it, besides, I still don't understand the appeal of an app that still has to grow, but is just a sister to VSCode, so it pretty much won't bring unique value to the table now or in the future.
It's actually open source, yes, that's great, but that's why I'm using the open build VSCodium and it works nicely. It's the only reason where I still have hopes it might be interesting at some point, since the majority of the workforce behind VSCode is, of course, Microsoft, the direction it'll take will always be driven by business, and it does show when the last few months (or more, I don't remember) the changelogs have been increasingly featuring AI integration updates, to the point a few releases had like 99% of just that, especially Copilot, that I mostly don't care for. At least some of those include creation of APIs that can be used by other extensions, but still, there's requested features waiting there that aren't about AI and for that sole fact they are just put in second place, not taken care of up to years. Perhaps a project with an actually open governance can work more towards what the community cares about, so, personally, I'd give it a few years to try it again and see how it's come along

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I noticed that Arduino are using it for the 2.0 of their IDE. I guess a big part of the benefit here is providing a workbench base for different types of IDE with different goals, similarly to Eclipse.

Not a million miles away from VSC's extension model but it allows deeper customisation which is fantastic for embedded hardware and software houses that need that deep integration without dealing with vendor lock in.