Just learned yesterday that Visual Studio is (essentially) open source (as code-oss), and also how easy it is to setup a self-hosted dev-in-browser experience for a group of people using "coder" and code-oss.
And the reason I posted anything at all - a note to myself for the future. I'm working with people trying to provide this type of environment at work, and it seems to be an open problem for them.
Next time we interact I will now ask better questions
@finity I recently found out repl.it heavily uses nix to create their environments which is super cool! I think you can even `nix-shell -p` to get more functionality in their shells
@brk I agree, it seems to work really well, and the user-mode type modification possibilities seem like a good compliment to containers. It's the first time I've used nix, I'll have to try it some more.
For years (decades) I have ssh'd in and vim'd and tmux'd my way to success. This has been great, and I still love it as a way to work. Last two days my desktop has been turned off (home maintenance has necessitated I move it), and I've been using repl.it for Advent Of Code. Which is awesome.
It made me curious about the maturity of open source self-hosted versions of the same thing. It looks like they're very mature.