How We Keep Up To Date With VS CodeĪs you may know, we provide Insiders builds for Gitpod VS Code and OpenVSCode Server.
Since many developers and organisations wanted to run VS Code as a full web application in their daily workflows with the same low-footprint technique used by Gitpod and Codespaces, we decided to share our own server implementation with everyone. Publishing OpenVSCode Server was motivated by the fact that Microsoft hadn’t at the time published any source code for their own implementation of a server that was able to run Visual Studio Code, which Microsoft uses to power GitHub Codespaces and their remote extensions. The OpenVSCode Server project is officially backed by our partners from GitLab, VMware, Uber, SAP, Sourcegraph, RStudio, SUSE, Tabnine, Render and TypeFox. In September we announced OpenVSCode Server, an open-source project that runs upstream VS Code on a remote machine accessed through a modern web browser. Why OpenVSCode Server in the first place? While we won’t send them a cake this time ?, we wanted to share our take on the release, our nightly sync jobs that enable us to run the latest VS Code in Gitpod and the future of OpenVSCode Server. The community deserves that the most popular developer tool of the planet keeps its open nature. When we launched our history of the last four years of Cloud IDEs on Oct 20, we spoke about the road ahead:Īs VS Code and cloud-based, remote development continues to grow in popularity, we hope to see the server-side implementation powering GitHub Codespaces being open-sourced in the upstream repository by Microsoft.Ī month after we released OpenVSCode Server, we are excited to see that Microsoft open-sourced their server implementation for running VS Code in the browser-the release happened faster than we anticipated ? ! First and foremost we want to say thank you to the excellent VS Code team. Today, we release Gitpod VS Code and OpenVSCode Server with these changes.Within a few days we switched Gitpod VS Code and OpenVSCode Server Insiders builds to the upstream implementation.After Gitpod launched OpenVSCode Server in September, Microsoft now open-sourced the server code powering VS Code remote development and GitHub Codespaces.Thanks Microsoft for open-sourcing VS Code Server ?