good question. key difference is MCP server is built right into the browser and works with your logged sessions. One-click to connect, no CDP setup needed. Also supports multiple parallel connections via MCP http transport.
> typing in textareas is a cumbersome and risky experience
Exactly! Forget syntax highlighting, that's the real problem to be solved! (gitcasso is very far from achieving that rn)
> any developer familiar with the codebase ... fix the issue in a fraction of that time
Fair point. I published an example which was easy to follow rather than an example which showed off the tooling at its "max strength". I recorded a different take where I added support for issues being opened within a GitHub Project. The scraping there is a lot more complex, fixing one case tends to break another, and the AI can solve it in pretty much the same time, but the video felt too confusing to bundle with the launch.
> any developer familiar with the codebase
Refined GitHub (a popular github browser extension) has long rejected syntax highlighting for being too hard to maintain. So part of the goal here is to automate that maintenance - hopefully there won't even be a developer who is currently familiar with the codebase pretty soon. The slowest part by far is capturing the snapshots in the first place, which could/ought be automated.
> you have a very nice shed
Thanks imiric! And thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
> We are not going to mess around with the comment box with syntax highlighting, which numerous people tried and failed due to GitHub updates or edge cases that are not so edgy.
At the beginning of Gitcasso, I took a little survey of GitLab, Reddit, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. to see how they were doing their textboxes. Of those I just listed, GitHub is the only one still using a plain textarea, all of the rest have a wysiwyg richtext gizmo (with GitLab and Reddit you can opt-in to markdown).
But by using the same variable-width font that the rendered comment uses, GitHub's default gives you more of a wysiwyg experience than a monospace font does. With syntax-highlighting it's an even more wysiwyg feel, but with absolutely none of the content ambiguity that richtext normally brings with it.
I came away really impressed with GitHub. For any given decision, it's hard to tell if the market victor won because of their good taste or if they won in spite of that particular decision and there was somewhere else where the good decisions were decisive. But as the GitHub issue/PR commenting system stands today, I have a hard time finding much to gripe with (except the missing syntax highlighting, of course).
Cline is another client. They even have a marketplace of MCP server extensions which you can use with Cline or Claude Desktop. https://cline.bot/mcp-marketplace
This is their government. Vance is their puppet. This is what they wanted.
Andreesen's little pseudo-manifesto a couple years back was fairly explicitly taking anti-liberal positions, and some that were outright anti-enlightenment.
Not surprising really. We now see an alliance between the tech sector of the US economy and the oil and gas sector. Remember Putin is effectively oil baron/executive, not just the leader of a country.
Language support relies on the same language servers that VS Code uses (i.e. language extensions)! Servers come pre-installed with a variety of extensions, but I believe we do not install Kotlin for now. We'll get Kotlin installed (this was just an oversight)!
