On: Vscode.dev

[tiffanyh]

>"Fast forward to today. Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser."

Does that imply there is functionality missing from the online version of VS Code?

[easton → tiffanyh]

Mostly anything that relies on having a real system attached to it instead of the browser JS engine. Running code, or a terminal, or things that rely on the git binary. Lots of extensions are working to remove their dependencies on the local system though.

[tiffanyh → easton]

So these limitations don't exist for Codespaces then?

[easton → tiffanyh]

They do not.

[meibo → tiffanyh]

If you were to continue reading, you would be informed that many of the non-web languages don't have the same support in this version, since it can't run native language servers/any extensions that use OS-level APIs.

[lucasmullens → tiffanyh]

Some extensions aren't available, such as GitLens.

[JimiofEden → lucasmullens]

Yeah, the first thing I tried was to install some Go extensions. I guess they'll need to have separate web versions (or some sort of extra qualifiers)