October 2018 Summaries

The article discusses how to use Gitpod, a web-based IDE, for developing native desktop UI applications. It explains that Docker builds can be used in Gitpod to set up a cloud-based developer environment for native UI applications. The author demonstrates this by creating a simple desktop-native application in Go using libui and running Visual Studio Code in Gitpod. The setup involves Xvfb, x11vnc, and novnc, which are proven tools for serving virtual screens to VNC clients. Limitations of this approach include Linux-only compatibility and occasional disconnections from the VNC server.