Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
The article says this is being positioned as a competitor to VS Code, so at least based on that I’m assuming this is editor vs. editor not editor vs. IDE. So the question remains, why would someone choose Theia as their text editor instead of VS Code? If this is instead being positioned as an IDE then the question becomes why would someone use Theia over something like IntelliJ, PyCharm, or Android Studio.
The article says this is being positioned as a competitor to VS Code, so at least based on that I’m assuming this is editor vs. editor not editor vs. IDE. So the question remains, why would someone choose Theia as their text editor instead of VS Code? If this is instead being positioned as an IDE then the question becomes why would someone use Theia over something like IntelliJ, PyCharm, or Android Studio.