Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal

11 comments

• kalamarico 2 days ago
  Hahaha!! This VScode ide definitely deserves it! Fantastic idea! You've my vote mate, good work!
• rvz 13 minutes ago
  Why?

  This just embeds electron and shoves it into the terminal instead of the native frontend.

  All the same downsides of Electron with practically little to no upside other than the same folks who ruined the web are now ruining the terminal.
• kruskakli 4 hours ago
  or just fake the layout using zellij, fzf and a little scripting... hehe https://github.com/etnt/my-zellij-config
• xyztimm 2 hours ago
  But does it also run a terminal emulator inside, which runs terminal-code inside, which…
• _345 2 days ago
  How does it compare performance wise? Feature parity? Can you spawn shells in the terminal pane or is there no terminal pane and you're expected to being your own multiplexer?
• red_admiral 3 hours ago
  This is coming dangerously close to reinventing the X (as in X11) protocol.
• gerdesj 2 hours ago
  vscode server and links2 probably wont cut it 8)
• DaOne256 3 hours ago
  That's exactly what I am looking for several years. Because VSCode is a bit slow via RDP or X11 Remote. I will try it out when I'm back at work.
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  • RupertWiser 2 hours ago
    Why not use vscode remote via ssh port forwarding? I just use it via my browser.
  • xienze 1 hour ago
    You can run it directly from a web browser too.
  • bip-bop-robot 1 hour ago
    There is ssh extension and remote containers extension, they work together.
• justindotdev 3 hours ago
  just use neovim :)
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  • mcbuilder 2 hours ago
    `emacs -nw` with DOOM Emacs for me. :)
  • sevkih 3 hours ago
    As a shell then rum terminal code inside
• chandramoulyKK 3 hours ago
  Made me smile for sure!
• lostmsu 3 hours ago
  I got excited that it's like TurboPascal, but this is basically VS Code over RDP (uses video streaming over kitty protocol).