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Considering this as JSFiddle or Codepen alternative, I would find difficulties in using it, having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately. I

by rgtk 10y ago

Considering this as JSFiddle or Codepen alternative, I would find difficulties in using it, having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately. I hope that Mozilla will finally figure out exactly what are their goals. They won't gain trust by releasing something promising and dropping it while after because it didn't match their expectations.

tangue 10y ago
More fun : Mozilla was a precusor of web based editors with Bespin but the project was fucked up in a typical Mozillan way. It's the basis of Cloud9 IDE now
- williamstein 10y ago
  Thimble uses Adobe brackets for the editor, which is built on CodeMirrorc which is the main OSS competitor to ACE/Bespin.
jupiter2 10y ago
> having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately I actually got angry when I saw it was from Mozilla. It's gotten to the point that supporting their projects seems like a waste of time. It's the old... "fool me twice, shame on me". Something like this would have fit in nicely with Firefox OS, too. They don't just pull the plug on interesting projects, they do it so quickly. > dropping it while after because it didn't match their expectations. I wonder what those are? Entry into the educational market, tie-in into other projects (that haven't already been killed), showcasing open technologies... Honestly, I'm not even sure they know themselves./rant Still... like much of their previous work, this looks promising.
- paulddraper 10y ago
  > Something like this would have fit in nicely with Firefox OS, too. Speaking of wastes of time....
foxylad 10y ago
I may be missing something, but I really don't understand this "Organisation X killed product Y so you should never use their products again" meme. Particularly when Y is open source. In this case, you are going to ignore what sounds like a very promising and useful product because the organisation that provides it once dropped support for something else. Despite it being open source - so if they did kill support you could continue to use all their hard work. My suggestion is to take each product on it's merits. If it's useful to you, use it - which adds to it's popularity and makes it less likely to be killed.
- TheRealPomax 10y ago
  And the fact that it's completely different teams of people working in completely different parts of Mozilla. It may not be a massively huge company, but at 1000+ employees don't for a moment believe that one team knows exactly what another team is up to and everyone is responsible for all the things.
inlineint 10y ago
It is open source. If Mozilla wants to discontinue it you always can host it yourself.

by rgtk 10y ago

tangue 10y ago

More fun : Mozilla was a precusor of web based editors with Bespin but the project was fucked up in a typical Mozillan way. It's the basis of Cloud9 IDE now

williamstein 10y ago
Thimble uses Adobe brackets for the editor, which is built on CodeMirrorc which is the main OSS competitor to ACE/Bespin.

jupiter2 10y ago

> having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately I actually got angry when I saw it was from Mozilla. It's gotten to the point that supporting their projects seems like a waste of time. It's the old... "fool me twice, shame on me". Something like this would have fit in nicely with Firefox OS, too. They don't just pull the plug on interesting projects, they do it so quickly. > dropping it while after because it didn't match their expectations. I wonder what those are? Entry into the educational market, tie-in into other projects (that haven't already been killed), showcasing open technologies... Honestly, I'm not even sure they know themselves./rant Still... like much of their previous work, this looks promising.

paulddraper 10y ago
> Something like this would have fit in nicely with Firefox OS, too. Speaking of wastes of time....

foxylad 10y ago

I may be missing something, but I really don't understand this "Organisation X killed product Y so you should never use their products again" meme. Particularly when Y is open source. In this case, you are going to ignore what sounds like a very promising and useful product because the organisation that provides it once dropped support for something else. Despite it being open source - so if they did kill support you could continue to use all their hard work. My suggestion is to take each product on it's merits. If it's useful to you, use it - which adds to it's popularity and makes it less likely to be killed.

TheRealPomax 10y ago
And the fact that it's completely different teams of people working in completely different parts of Mozilla. It may not be a massively huge company, but at 1000+ employees don't for a moment believe that one team knows exactly what another team is up to and everyone is responsible for all the things.

inlineint 10y ago

It is open source. If Mozilla wants to discontinue it you always can host it yourself.