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Cloud9 IDE is actually a very nice cloud-based editor that already hooks into Github and others.

by james33 14y ago

scott_karana 14y ago
Can't upvote this enough. Quite a cool project, open source, runs on Node, and is very featureful.
maratd 14y ago
I've been using it to write production code for almost 6 months now. Over the last month, they've eliminated all the minor annoyances. It's solid and works. I couldn't complain even if I wanted to. The codebase is also very approachable. I needed a feature, wrote it, pull request, and they accepted it.
- huskyr 14y ago
  Cool! What are the main benefits you noticed when comparing it to the traditional offline model?
  - maratd 14y ago
    With a traditional IDE, you have to install it everywhere. With me, that would be a half-dozen computers, with 500MB lost on each one. With Cloud9, it's installed on the server and I can access it anywhere there's a net connection. Updates are centralized, you only need to do it once. And it's funny, but the IDE is actually more performant in the browser. Well, I was using Aptana before, which is essentially Eclipse and that's known to be slow. Also, it just feels natural to have your IDE right next to the end product. IDE in one tab, web app in the other.
spb 14y ago
In fact, Ace (the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is what Github uses for their file editing interface, so if you're editing files on the site directly, you're already using Cloud9, partially.
Flenser 14y ago
I had to use Cloud9 a few months ago to populate a new repo for a small project I wanted to share. With today's changes I wouldn't have needed to use Cloud9. Being able to add files is long overdue and I wonder how much it was to stem the tide of users using third party sites to populate github and thereby becoming entrenched in a development/publishing workflow that only used github as a storage layer and not somewhere where you would spend time or send others to the github website.

Cloud9 IDE is actually a very nice cloud-based editor that already hooks into Github and others.

by james33 14y ago

Cloud9 IDE is actually a very nice cloud-based editor that already hooks into Github and others.

scott_karana 14y ago

Can't upvote this enough. Quite a cool project, open source, runs on Node, and is very featureful.

maratd 14y ago

I've been using it to write production code for almost 6 months now. Over the last month, they've eliminated all the minor annoyances. It's solid and works. I couldn't complain even if I wanted to. The codebase is also very approachable. I needed a feature, wrote it, pull request, and they accepted it.

huskyr 14y ago
Cool! What are the main benefits you noticed when comparing it to the traditional offline model?
- maratd 14y ago
  With a traditional IDE, you have to install it everywhere. With me, that would be a half-dozen computers, with 500MB lost on each one. With Cloud9, it's installed on the server and I can access it anywhere there's a net connection. Updates are centralized, you only need to do it once. And it's funny, but the IDE is actually more performant in the browser. Well, I was using Aptana before, which is essentially Eclipse and that's known to be slow. Also, it just feels natural to have your IDE right next to the end product. IDE in one tab, web app in the other.

spb 14y ago

In fact, Ace (the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) is what Github uses for their file editing interface, so if you're editing files on the site directly, you're already using Cloud9, partially.

Flenser 14y ago

I had to use Cloud9 a few months ago to populate a new repo for a small project I wanted to share. With today's changes I wouldn't have needed to use Cloud9. Being able to add files is long overdue and I wonder how much it was to stem the tide of users using third party sites to populate github and thereby becoming entrenched in a development/publishing workflow that only used github as a storage layer and not somewhere where you would spend time or send others to the github website.