We are excited to announce Version 1.0 of Eclipse Theia, the vendor-neutral open-source IDE platform that runs in browsers and on desktops.
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I couldn't easily find a single download link for theia instead of github page.
you need to make it effortless to download a ready binary package or installer for win/linux/mac if you seek to reach wide spread.
The easiest way to try Theia right now is by using Gitpod, you can start Theia from sources with: gitpod.io/#https://github.com/thei...
Please also upvote here for vanilla Theia installers: github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/iss...
I get the impression that Theia isn't an IDE, but an IDE platform. E.g., a toolset for creating your own IDE. So you, as the user of Theia, would be the one creating a binary package for others to download.
It's not an application, it's a toolset/platform.
It is compared to VS Code, which is an application end-users can download and run. I fail to understand the distinction. Is a toolset not software that can be run in this context?
VSCode is intended as the end product, a full-featured IDE that's suited for virtually any project, but cannot be customized beyond theming and extensions.
Theia is not intended to be the end product. I suppose it can be, but Theia is an IDE platform for you to build and customize on top of.
For instance, let's say that you wanted an IDE that fully supports quantum computing languages and workflows such as Microsoft's Q# and some python libraries. Rather than starting from nothing, Theia provides a fully-equipped IDE for you to work with and customize however you want, since it's entirely open source. With VSCode, this simply isn't possible beyond extensions since it's closed source.
VSCode is open source.
github.com/microsoft/vscode
I felt the same. That doesn't matter, imo, that it's a platform. We need a generic IDE to try and then there will be wishes we would want to fulfill via building special flavored binaries.
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia
That's a possible way to try it in a desktop browser, I agree. But that not the way I would use an IDE on the desktop.
Please upvote here: github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/iss...
github.com/theia-ide/yangster-elec...
Good point! For adopters we have example electron build setups:
+1000
I'm 6 hours into my Theia studies, and so far: I'm completely blown-away by the potential of an IDE framework as compared to an IDE proper.
I'm trying very hard to slow myself down, but it's not working.
I envision a trillion things that should have been, but weren't.
I feel the same when first time I hear about Theia. Same thing to JetBrains Opensource Platform and NetBeans platform.
"leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet"
By creating your own IDE-extension community?
I mean, the new extension registry won't mirror what's in Microsofts registry and require every extension creator to explicitly load things to the other one, or am I mistaken here?
As explained in the post, Microsoft disallows non Visual Studio products to use their marketplace. We are not creating a new community but rather an additional registry for the same community that allows access from anyone (including e.g. VSCodium).
I understand that.
It just seems to me that "creating a new marketplace and hoping extension creators will use it" is at odds with "leveraging the largest and most active IDE-extension community on the planet".
Don't get me wrong, I think your new open registry sounds like an awesome idea and I hope it works, but it seems like a very risky assumption to me.
RedHat, MS Azure, Elm, VMware, Pivotal claimed namespaces last week and started publishing: github.com/eclipse/open-vsx.org/is...
We are seeding the registry as well: github.com/open-vsx/publish-extens...
Spreading the word would be helpful.
cool, I will do :)
First impression is very good. Thanks for such open source product 👍
It would be nice to see the documentation about how to properly plug own code for server/frontend. Currently it generate some source code and it’s not clear what should I modify if I want to customize server code.
The product page has fair help, but the concepts were a little fuzzy to me at first. This kitchen-sink build (and others in the repo) shed some light, then the product page was much easier to wrap my head around.
github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps/tr...
(Backstory: I'm coming from Intellij, not vscode, so I was a TOTAL noob to the whole thing)
You can find some docs here: theia-ide.org/docs/composing_appli...
And follow this Theia workshop: github.com/TypeFox/theia-workshop
Any help with improving docs and workshop is welcomed!
The word "Theia" means "Aunt" or "Divine." As "aunt" doesn't make any sense, I assume the meaning is a divine application, facility, utility, etc. So far, so good. My question is, is it so much better than its competition to say it's divine?
The answer is in the logo. There are actually 3 things.
Theia is the Titan Goddess of Sight, that may have some bearing on it.
This is nice!
Some years ago I was creating something similar, an IDE that supported extensions from multiple other IDEs and editors, but I soon abandoned the project because it was too much work to be doing it alone and for free.
Keep it up!
Too bad it is based on electron... which means huge memory and CPU consumption, like Slack or Microsoft Teams.
OK, it divides your development workload; but it multiplies our energy guzzling.
And I hate hearing my PC fans rotating like mad.
Use browser version, it does not have any electron dependencies. Or better use Gitpod :)
@Anton Kosyakov,
Amazing works. Thanks!
I'm from eclipse EMF for a mouse heavy workflow modelling tool.
Two years ago, we developed a cloud-native solution from the stretch. It's a SPA IDE which can do exactly the same graphics modelling out of eclipse modelling framework, and we can do cloud execution. Now we are looking for an interactive debug solution for our project.
Shall we covert our whole project as a Theia plugin to leverage Theia or we can leverage only the coding and extension system of Theia? Previously, I'm looking for a solution based on code mirror and LSP, DAP.
Thanks in advance!
It should not be hard to leverage LSP and DAP. Theia is not opinionated about frontend framework. The basic UI element is a widget which is an HTML element with lifecycle hooks. If your current solution is built with JS tech then it should be possible to embed them in Theia widgets. If no then usually backend can be reused but frontend should be converted.
Here is a presentation from last year TheiaCon about how SAP converted their solution: youtube.com/watch?v=Rj35nCxw_9U You can see there are many approaches.
Here is on Theia Widget lifecycle: youtube.com/watch?v=T1HDIy7LfFg
Theia is an extensible IDE framework with cloud-first mindset not a patch to electron and VS Code source code to run it in a browser as code server. Theia does provide similar UX and compatible with VS Code extensions but relies on stable components and protocols like Monaco, LSP, DAP and vscode extension api. Besides it is vendor neutral and allow to build white labeled products like Gitpod, ARM Mbed Studio or Arduino Pro IDE.
Check visual studio online
visualstudio.microsoft.com/service...
Yes, that one is really good as well. But unfortunately not open-source and less extensible, so not so great for adopters.
Yes, visual studio online is extremely good, though the source code of the product is not in the open - some of the components of the product is open source. Monaco and VS Code are owned by Microsoft and they are open-sourced. There are a lot of extensibility points/ APIs, so you can extend it as you want. It is scalable and connects seamlessly with many source code repositories such as GitHub, Azure Repo etc. And connecting with VS Code is amazing - remote -connection, liveshare, better debugging experience and can handle massive workloads.
I would not understand what you meant by "not so great for adopters"? What do you mean by "adopters"?
I mean other organisations and products who would invent new things on top of existing open-source code, i.e. using Theia as a foundation for their tools.
All nice and dandy but when can we hope to get a .msi / .exe package to download and put it through its paces and compare it with VSCode on the same scenarios?
In GitPod Theia is really pleasant to use. Looking forward testing it more.
My name is Adrian Ndlovu, I am a university student in South Africa doing research on Eclipse Theia plugins and I can only find information on how to implement your own plugin but I cannot get information on already plugins already used and established that I can research on. Please help me with suggestions on how to go about this and possibly references to where I may be able to get help.
How can I download this IDE? I can't find the download link
Great job
What is the link to upload a VSX addon to the open vs site?
Is gitpod.io build on Theia?
Will this make development in remote VM's easier? Didn't find this point in the github site.