Less setup involved especially if you are dealing with a language you don't use everyday. Also nice to build reusable small components in an isolated environmen

Less setup involved especially if you are dealing with a language you don't use everyday. Also nice to build reusable small components in an isolated environment. I use codepen everyday for compiling different frontend web components. Its not an IDE, but it has IDE-like features. This way I could build reusable code snippets. Then I port those into my actual project. I wish something like this existed for backend languages, repl.it was the closest thing I found. Although stackblitz is nice too. What I look for in an web IDE is a simple system that lets me debug small singular components. If they integrated something like pythontutor.com or loupe.com, visual animations for debugging, that would be really nice. A webapp has more potential for these applications than an electron-based app. Next I always end up with build errors. I'm too lazy to use docker / run VMs so having someone do this for me is a bonus. Also, online IDE's are used in classroom settings often. I used cloud9 a few times for this reason and its very helpful, minus the fact the git-integration tools the last time I use it weren't there. To put it in short, I look for webtools that would let me build micro environments to test a small suite of code. Ideally with nice debugging tools. And an easy way to reference those code snippets later (imagine evernote's tagging structure applied to a web IDE). Web IDE's won't compile as fast as a native desktop application however.