I will not be baited into distinguishing between the two. As noted, saying they are the same on its face. If you believe they are the same/similar, I encourage you to write an article about it and post it for a discussion here on HN. If you let me know, I’ll happily respond there. Otherwise, I will assume you agree with me.
I used to be a major contributor and follower of Atom. People commonly asked why Atom couldn't run in the browser. The answer was simple, node and a browser are totally different things. Imagine a browser opening files, starting processes, running arbitrary C-code, etc.
What everyone else has been doing is embedding Monaco (the barebones text editor component) into their shell. The shell implements things like searches, key bindings, a file explorer tree view, top menu, fake-console etc.
What the creator is saying is that he got the actual VSCode project running in the browser. This means that the vast plugin ecosystem will run inside the browser. I suppose he'd have replaced all the nodejs dependencies with browser versions; for example an "fs" module that keeps files in-memory (or maybe using indexeddb) etc.
Further down that tweet, he says that the code is very easy to get started with. That's been my experience looking at it briefly; VSCode just seems like it was written by a team with deep expertise in IDE-making and PLs.
While I'd be absolutely certain they both spy on me (for various degrees of "spying"), I trust Google to better safeguard the data it collects about me.
Huawei is more likely to do a poor job of keeping said data to itself, either intentionally (selling it outright) or by getting hacked.
I'm convinced Google wouldn't sell my data - it is immensely more valuable to them if they're the only ones with it. That said, they'd still use it - to target and profile me, and of course I expect them both to share it with the respective governments.
Moreover, if I use Google services through a Huawei phone, they both end up with my data, while if I use a google device at least it's just Google. I'm not enthusiastic about either, but, hey, lesser of two evils.
(For the record I have an iPhone and try to avoid giving Google too much data about me)
Jeez, you'd think the Red Scare would be a thing of the past, but no, apparently a phone maker wants to eradicate your way of life by selling you phones.
At this point you really have to conclude that the intense anti-China bigotry here on HN is a deliberate strategy. Hate is who people like scooke are and HN makes every effort to spread and amplify that hate.
Please don't post nationalistic flamewar comments to HN, or project the enemy of your view onto the whole of this community. People are simply divided—and they're biting each other's heads off, which is not cool and needs to stop.
What I find remarkable is how one comment accuses a Chinese company of trying to "destroy" a "way of life" and there is absolutely no consequence, the comment is in no way highlighted as unusual or unwelcome. I know a lot of people who work at Huawei. They are some of the most boring and kind people on the planet. The idea that they are trying to destroy anything is laughable.
But my comment which merely highlights the absurdity of the previous comment is immediately flagged.
> there is absolutely no consequence, the comment is in no way highlighted as unusual or unwelcome.
It's flagged and dead, unlike your comment, which is merely flagged. You're replying to a comment dang wrote after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808124 What else would you like to happen?
Someone made the same comment to me the other day.
I said "Either it's the Americans or the Chinese spying on my, either way I'm fucked". I feel like it's safe to assume that most consumer hardware is backdoored/cracked by one intelligence agency or another.
Do we have proof that's the case with Apple though? Not a fanboy, but I casually remember reading that they weren't willing to sacrifice their security and capitulate to the gov on this point.
will after installing Lineage it's relatively safe, but you are too late to party after bootloader unlock page gone, now it's up to finding friendly customer service representative or giving try to DC unlocker which sometimes work even on phones they officially don't support
