GitHub Announces Cloud-Based IDE ‘Codespaces’ Based on Visual Studio Code

May. 7, 2020

At its ‘Satellite’ virtual conference on Wednesday, GitHub announced four new products that it said will help software communities collaborate better online. The most notable one is a full-fledgedcloud-based IDE called GitHub Codespacesbased on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. According to Shanku Niyogi, GitHub’s SVP of Product,“Codespaces gives you a fully-featured cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within GitHub, so you can start contributing to a project right away”.

Alongside Codespaces,GitHub also announced Discussions, which, as its name suggests, is a discussion forum to talk about anything related to a given project. While GitHub already allowed users to have conversations through issues and pull requests, the new feature is meant to enable unstructured threaded conversations. Discussions is currently in beta testing with a few open source communities, but GitHub says it will available to other projects soon.

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