'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense' Tim Anderson Thu 8 Apr 2021 // 13:12 UTC Share Copy Gitpod, which provides remote environments for testing and debugging code, has shifted to Visual Studio Code from Eclipse Theia and is sponsoring a new event called DevX Conf, focused on the developer experience. The idea behind the open-source Gitpod platform is that developers code, build, test, and debug in a remote workspace implemented as a Docker container, running on Kubernetes, and accessed via a web browser. There are integrations with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, and the official IDE is Eclipse Theia – or was. "The IDE you get is now the original VS Code," co-founder Sven Efftinge told us.