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> At a Microsoft sized company I'd get it because they can basically blow billions on that sort of thing It also helps that Microsoft is in the business of sel
by rumanator 6y ago
> At a Microsoft sized company I'd get it because they can basically blow billions on that sort of thing
It also helps that Microsoft is in the business of selling IDEs.
- regularfry 6y agoInteresting question: why isn't Mozilla in this business too? They've got a cross-platform desktop app toolkit sat right there, and big enough developer mindshare to be interesting. There's room for a Firefox-flavour web dev IDE in the market, surely? Firefox dev tools, only with edit-in-place and live debugging for server-side assets. Seems odd to me that they've never gone that way, given everything else they've tried.
- trenchgun 6y agoIndeed.
- nitrogen 6y agoA web editor was actually an integral part of the original suite from which Firefox was derived.
- Vinnl 6y agoThey did have something that was intended to evolve into something like that, I think, but it was half-hearted, somewhat tucked away, and never gained any real traction: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/WebIDE https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/WebIDE
- infogulch 6y agoYes, I think a lightweight servo/webrender cross platform UI toolkit a la Electron would offer a fast stable core to build any number of apps, including an IDE.