This feature sets Project IDX apart from traditional development environments and aligns it with existing cloud-based environments like Replit and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Spaces.

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

Meanwhile, Visual Studio Code usually starts up quickly enough that I can be productive in a few minutes, even for large projects. I said usually, not always: Visual Studio Code itself needs a ...