Hey - founder & CEO of Codenvy, also project lead for Eclipse Che - a workspace server and cloud IDE. We have learned a little bit about what it takes to run en

Hey - founder & CEO of Codenvy, also project lead for Eclipse Che - a workspace server and cloud IDE. We have learned a little bit about what it takes to run environments in the cloud and then present development experiences for languages in the browser. Congrats to @wsxiaoys for launching a new project. Anyone who takes the time to launch projects are doing a labor of love and commitment, so that deserves credit and recognition! Some observations that you may want to think about: a) The time to execute a simple bash command "echo 'hi'" was a few seconds. This tells me that you are probably spinning up a new Docker container on-demand after the user says "run". This will not really make the product usable over time. You'll eventually find that people will expect their environment to be loaded and running the moment their end user session has started. This way you can use Docker exec or other mechanisms (in Che we replaced Docker exec with a custom agent that runs inside the container that gives us fine-grained control over how processes are executed within the container). When a user says "run" you can then guarantee instant execution and then control how results are streamed. b) I wrote most of the CLI for Eclipse Che and Codenvy (in bash!!). So learned that a few project / framework concepts are essential. In particular a project structure that allows you to source different files / or libraries will become important. Also, BATS for unit testing is essential to anyone maintaining bash scripts. Few people use BATS, but it's a life saver, so having automatic structuring of BATS tests as users creates bash files would be awesome. c) Have you seen the language server protocol? No one has built a language server yet for Bash. It would be awesome to have symbol lookup, referencing, and auto-complete services within your editor. You could use a Monaco editor with a bash language server to give contextualized intelligence to your bash program for the developer. You could even go so far as to offer line by line debugging with it :) Thanks for your contributions to the community!