[oelang]

Well you're wrong, you can't run VS Code on the cloud.

[colemickens]

It's not full VS Code, but the shell certainly runs in the browser, along with the editor, and auto-complete, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14259463

I have a comment elsewhere in this thread imagining a headless VS Code with a remote UI in the browser. Would get you something close to Theia with the full VS Code ecosystem.

[tooldepth]

Vscode's architecture is not fit for that, as it runs additional node processes (e.g. the extension host process) that are chatting with the renderer process on a very fine-grained level.

[romanovcode]

https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

[hexa00]

Theia is using monaco. But there's other reasons for Theia too like the governance of the project, vscode is controlled by Microsoft and they may have conflicts when lets say some feature would compete with their visual studio offering.

Theia wants to be free from those problems.