> Once you manage to stop laughing at the concept of using an editor, hosted in a webbrowser Webbrowsers are designed, as it's main function, to display text.

> Once you manage to stop laughing at the concept of using an editor, hosted in a webbrowser Webbrowsers are designed, as it's main function, to display text. Makes sense to me to use something that can render text in all sorts of different ways *as a text editor.* I've tried to use Emacs several times, and come away thinking that it does a lot of things, but none of them particularly well. Elisp seems fine I suppose, but JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages and so it's sensible to use that as a basis for an ide whereby more people have the existing knowledge to hack away with it.