Tried GitHub CodeSpaces — Does Not Work Though

why does it not work?

For some time now, I have been seeing this option called ‘CodeSpaces’. I decided to take it for a test drive.

Created a new repository, and created a new code space as well.

Note: It’s a public, as of now, empty repo. You can see if you are able to open it in CodeSpace. Find the repo here.

But then, this comes up, almost immediately.

On Firefox

on edge.

also on the edge extension app.

Eventually, I realized, it’s not going to work on the ‘web’ thing. Decided to use the ‘VS Code’ option. That worked almost immediately.

It’s slow though. Perhaps, because on the free plan. I don’t know.

However, I keep thinking, if I have to open it in VS Code, I could easily just clone the repo and do my coding work anyway. The browser thing, if it works, would be cooler. Perhaps, they are fixing it. It’s probably still a work in progress thing.

I will revisit this a few days later. I like the idea. Being able to code directly in the browser with VS Code. Just need to wait for it to get better.

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