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TypeFox Blog
Company blog · typefox.io/blogprogrammingsystems
TypeFox Blog is the company blog at typefox.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The Open Collaboration Tools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link TypeFox's blog for background on Eclipse Theia, Open VSX and Open Collaboration Tools. The comments cite its posts as context and do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software experts in Kiel, Germany: we architect and build domain-specific languages, custom IDEs and AI tools for your domain. We started Langium and other standards.
Most-linked posts?
- The Open Collaboration Tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
- Langium 1.0: A mature language toolkit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-16
What Hacker News says?
2022 discussion (142 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709 Possibly one change in 2024 is that Typefox (which contributes to Eclipse Theia) announced Open Collaboration tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970621 -> https://www.typefox.io/blog/open-collaboration-tools-announc... (2024)
Comment linking /blog/open-collaboration-tools-announcement/
on “Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)”Submitted The Open Collaboration Tools as a story · 177 points
HN discussionThanks for the share. Yeah, building upon VSCode (MIT) is a stupid idea. Regarding OpenVSX, it was developed whilst I was at Gitpod and transferred to the Eclipse Foundation. It's been many years now, so my memory might be a little dated as to what came first, but OpenVSX/Gitpod/Thiea/Eclipse origins can all be traced back to https://www.typefox.io/ . Anyway. OpenVSX is classic XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/ territory—…
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on “OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours”Submitted Theia – One IDE for Desktop and Cloud as a story · 88 points
HN discussionemacs. LSP (under editor such as emacs[0]) provides the context/way for being able to define a specific way to parse specifics of a language in order to add/define emacs hooks/jump points for a given language definition of nodes/files/modules/functions) [0] : https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/tree-sitter-complicat ... https://consensys.net/diligence/blog/2019/10/solidity-visual... https://www.typefox.io/blog/us…
Comment linking /blog/using-sprotty-in-vs-code-extensions
on “Ask HN: In-editor visual mind map/graph tool for code?”Submitted Theia – VS Code in the Cloud as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastbelt: The high-speed DSL toolkit for Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Langium 1.0: A mature language toolkit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Langium 1.0: A Mature Language Toolkit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xtext to Langium as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Langium grammars now have similar expressivity as ANTLR4 but in TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Textual and Graphical Languages for the Cloud Era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theia IDE May 2018 Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theia – One IDE for Desktop and Cloud as a story · 1 points
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