[barkingcat]

There's also the Eclipse VScode-look-alike-reimplementation called TheiaIDE

https://theia-ide.org/

It was rough a few years ago, but nowadays it's pretty nice. TI rebuilt their Code Composer Studio using Theia so it does have some larger users. It has LSP support and the same Monaco editor backend - which is all I need.

It's VSCode-with-an-Eclipse-feel to it - which might or might not be your cup of tea, but it's an alternative.

[kookamamie]

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[lastdong]

Agreed not the most well thought landing page, but the explore page gives a good insight of how it’s being used and what it looks like: https://theia-ide.org/theia-platform/

(Scroll down to Selected Tools based on Eclipse Theia)

[bobajeff]

The feature that keeps me from moving off of vscode is their markdown support. In particular the ability to drag and drop to insert links to files and images *. Surprisingly, no other editor does this even though I use it all the time.

* https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown#_inser...

[newlisp]

It's also a good alternative to Obisdian if you don't need smartphone support.

[chatmasta]

Obsidian supports this. (Or at least, it supports pasting an image from clapboard so I’m assuming drag and drop works too.)

[pritambaral]

Interesting.

I belong to the class of people who believe in customising their tools as they please. So I'd have written an Emacs package to do this. But then again, this is Emacs, so someone's probably already done it. Oh, here it is: https://github.com/mooreryan/markdown-dnd-images

[Sn0wCoder]

Thank you! The timing of this comment is perfect

[barrenko]

But if I'm not wrong here, this is also just the VS Code / Electron still?

[oaiey]

It is electron and monaco (the text editor itself), but there is a lot more to VS Code / Theia than this two parts.

[v3ss0n]

Yeah , INSEAD of forking vscode which is not modification friendly they should justuse theia because it is maintained to be modular and allowed to be used like a Library to build IDEs of your choice.

[v3ss0n]

Whoever disagreed and downvoted can you explain me why?

[jeffbee]

Google Cloud Shell is also Theia. I think it is fairly popular.

[bayindirh]

Eclipse (as in ecosystem) is fairly popular in Enterprise, but since it exposes all the knobs, and is a bona fide IDE which has some learning curve, people stay away from it.

Also it used to be kinda heavy, but it became lighter because of Moore's law and good code management practices all over the board.

I'm planning to deploy Theia in its web based form if possible, but still didn't have the time to tinker with that one.

[fHr]

eclipse still is alive holy shit

[andylynch]

Installing the VSCode extension pack for Java runs a headless version of Eclipse JDT under the hood, which isn’t quite what I think of as lightweight.