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No. it's not fun to run any code in a browser <textarea>. especially when you have a full linux distro with ssh and modern text editors, with decent undo, colum
by gcb0 14y ago
No. it's not fun to run any code in a browser <textarea>. especially when you have a full linux distro with ssh and modern text editors, with decent undo, column editing, auto-completion, regexp, etc.
never really understood the appeal of the arduino interface or cloud9. Well, for the arduino i can at least try to explain that, same with android, there are so many bad tutorials based on copy/past and boasting those IDE, that lots and lots of people start already thinking that is their only option.
- gardarh 14y agoIt means you can get started right away. If you want to be more serious, sure, write stuff in C or whatever, it works fine, after all this is just a Linux machine (with a simple webserver running cloud9 on port 3000). Or just ssh into the bone and edit your .js files in vim (it probably makes you feel a little bit more hardcore but yeah, it's still js). No need for the negativity, can't blame those guys for wanting to get a larger userbase by making things easy. In the end the larger volume/bigger community is beneficial to everyone.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoActually having both is a pretty nice. The reason is that it can be intimidating to someone in getting started. The notion of IDE via the web server is also useful for keeping the required software down on a machine you may not control. I was helping kids learn programming at a high school but the school would not give us permission to install putty[1] on the machines, using a browser based dev kit works well in this case. Once you get someone past the basics and into the 'advanced' mode setting them up with ssh, vim, and screen is a great way to be productive on a linux machine. [1] Putty in this case being the terminal emulator for PC's which can also talk to serial ports.