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I'm confused about what problem this is trying to solve. Can someone enlighten me?
by ori_b 14y ago
I'm confused about what problem this is trying to solve. Can someone enlighten me?
- creationix 14y agoThe main problem it solves is to allow offline development in sandboxed environments like ChromeBooks and Windows RT devices (or even iPads if you had a BT keyboard).
- shawndumas 14y agoMy 11yo has a ChromeBook and uses Cloud9 IDE to do all his coding at home. When he's on the go with mom (home-schooling at the park) he can't code; sadness... If he had a git clone in a sandbox he could keep coding; happiness... . backed!
- creationix 14y agoExactly the kind of person I'm trying to help!!! Thanks for the support.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoWeb apps do not have read/write access to the file system. So let's say you wanted to write a text editor web app. You can't modify a user's local files so you are forced to store their data on your servers. You are forced to create some UI for integration with GitHub, Bitbucket, etc. You are forced to add a lot of stuff Sublime and TextMate don't have to worry about... you are forced to build an IDE. This would improve a lot of that kind of thing.
- ldng 14y agoIMHO, that's definitely something Github should have been working on for its paying customers.