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Open source developer platform company Gitpod is sprouting new growth.
The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code development environments.
Alongside some financial updates, the GitPod has detailed what it calls a veritable ‘bevy’ of product features and the first-ever DevX Conf purely focused on improving the developer experience.
About time too eh?
Well, to be fair, we do hear a whole lot about so-called User eXperience (UX) with its fancy lower-case upper-case nametag and acronym, so very arguably, we should be thinking about DevX first… otherwise, none of that UX will ever get delivered properly, if at all… right?
Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense
Tim Anderson Thu 8 Apr 2021 // 13:12 UTC Share
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Gitpod, which provides remote environments for testing and debugging code, has shifted to Visual Studio Code from Eclipse Theia and is sponsoring a new event called DevX Conf, focused on the developer experience.
The idea behind the open-source Gitpod platform is that developers code, build, test, and debug in a remote workspace implemented as a Docker container, running on Kubernetes, and accessed via a web browser.
There are integrations with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, and the official IDE is Eclipse Theia – or was. The IDE you get is now the original VS Code, co-founder Sven Efftinge told us.