from the PowerPoint-is-the-One-True-Way™ dept.
git in mah belly
There can be only one: Visual Studio Codespaces 'consolidating' into GitHub Codespaces:
Formerly Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio Codespaces brought forth Azure-powered development environments, with either a browser-based version of Visual Studio Code or its desktop equivalent. A private preview using the full-fat Visual Studio IDE was also made available.
GitHub Codespaces popped out shortly after, looking suspiciously similar to its Visual Studio-branded sibling. Linux lurks under the hood of both, although the Visual Studio incarnation required hooking up to an Azure subscription the alternative enjoyed a GitHub-native experience.
[...] The solution, according to Microsoft, is a "consolidation" of Visual Studio Codespaces into GitHub Codespaces. And so cometh the Microsoft axeman.
Developers have until 17 February 2021 to shift off the Azure incarnation and into the loving embrace of GitHub Codespaces. At that point the Visual Studio Codespaces portal will be retired and "all plans and codespaces remaining in the service will be deleted," according to Microsoft.
(Score: 5, Funny) by requerdanos on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:01PM (4 children)
Nice to know your code Plays For Sure [cnet.com].
(Score: 3, Funny) by fadrian on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:51PM (2 children)
Come on... They needed the space to fulfill the Jedi contract.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:52PM (1 child)
Aren't Microsoft and the Jedi on opposite sides?
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:28PM
You should know after all Bill Gates IS your father.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:36PM
Referring to your subject line, I would offer . . .
The virtues of systemd, and Microsoft products, are: predictability and reproducibility.
When it never works correctly, these two important conditions are met.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @02:36PM (4 children)
I have a nice long tunnel you can walk down. Down mind the tracks, and the bright light at the other end.
It will interesting to see how many projects don't shift, and end up getting shunted in a "pay us for your own code, or or else" situation with redmond. Those who didn't move after the buyout are playing chicken with a train. Don't kid yourself. Yes it is git, yes it is foss. But they have people who spend all day thinking of nothing else but ways to fuck over developers who don't pay homage to their tyrrany and greed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:42PM (2 children)
And that's why anything I have on GitHub is also on my own private server. Also why I only use Github when I want to submity PRs to other projects that are oon Github.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by istartedi on Wednesday September 09 2020, @07:39PM (1 child)
What does github even have to do with this? Going way back I was one of those "I don't like source control" guys. I eventually saw the value of it, and now actually enjoy it, but you know what?
Every once in a while I re-name the directory of my local working copy, and check-out as if I were a brand new user. That way I know that it's really all up there, and I'm not just being lulled into complacency thinking that svn is really doing its job. That's the "big check" and "svn status" is the little check to make sure you've really got everything in control that you want.
ie, use tools on your data, but don't trust tools *with* your data. See also, "trust, but verify".
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday September 09 2020, @08:07PM
MS now owns Github.
I'm all for source control, and git does it well. Github is quite helpful as well, but ultimately nobody will care about preserving my code like I do, so I make sure not to make them or anyone else the only place I store it.
Because of that, nobody will be able to suddenly decide to hold my code for ransom (at least not effectively).
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:50PM
At least a train coming at you in that tunnel gives you some warning. Others will take comfort that they see the light at the end of the tunnel! [youtube.com]
Feb 17 doesn't sound to me like a whole lot of warning. Soon we'll be into holiday season. Shopping. Dealing with annual HR stuff like health insurance enrollment. Other end of year stuff.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DannyB on Wednesday September 09 2020, @04:42PM
Can't you put development systems or virtual desktops onto plain virtual machines running Linux?
Maybe use Apache Guacamole™ [apache.org]
That way, you can always move your VMs to another host. There are ways to set up cloud hosted development tools -- on your own cloud -- even if it is on someone else's equipment.
If you're using something that you can't control, then you are under someone else's control.
But then, most people just don't seem to mind. I work on an SaaS product, and customers prefer to run it in the cloud rather than host it on their own equipment. So we eventually eliminated the option to host it on customer equipment due to lack of interest.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 09 2020, @06:34PM (1 child)
"Developers have until 17 February 2021 to shift off the Azure incarnation"
if you use Azure and VS Code you are not a "Developer", but a Suited Whore.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:55AM
Speaking as a suited whore, I take offence: neither I nor my colleagues would ever deliberately use anything from Microsoft. We do have some standards you know.