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Do people really think it's a good idea to have an IDE on the web? What do you do when the network is down, or when you're on the plane, train, etc. And what if

by geertj 13y ago

Do people really think it's a good idea to have an IDE on the web? What do you do when the network is down, or when you're on the plane, train, etc. And what if the network is slow? I think I'll keep my local development workstation for some time.

cmwright 13y ago
I haven't personally used the product yet, but it looks like they have a desktop client to sync code to local repositories (dropbox style). That way you could at least code when offline, although the testing in a dev environment would still be an issue.
korzun 13y ago
I yet to meet a good engineer takes web IDE's seriously.
- mark_l_watson 13y ago
  I consulted at Google last year and I really liked the internal web based IDE, and I am sure a lot of people there would agree with me. I was talking to someone at Google last week and mentioned how much I enjoyed the web IDE, even in an early form. He said that it is getting more awesome quickly.
  - korzun 13y ago
    You can't compare Googles infrastructure to an average start-up without security team or proper procedures that protect company data. Not to mention most of the start-ups have shitty uplink with no redundancy.
Edmond 13y ago
Native is faster but I think the browser will eventually catch-up enough that the difference would be negligible. There are also a lot of advantages to having at least web development done in the browser. I am the founder of Crudzilla Software (crudzilla.com), a browser based web app platform. I can tell you that there's a lot that our product is able to do because it is built in the browser that would be very difficult to accomplish in a native product. As far as issues of network connectivity, I think that's a legitimate concern but increasingly network connectivity is not an issue for most situations.
sparkyrizzo 13y ago
For sake of wasting a few minutes, I attempted to get sandbox up an running. Connection issues and dreadfully slow IDE. Beyond looking cool, what is the use case?

by geertj 13y ago

cmwright 13y ago

I haven't personally used the product yet, but it looks like they have a desktop client to sync code to local repositories (dropbox style). That way you could at least code when offline, although the testing in a dev environment would still be an issue.

korzun 13y ago

I yet to meet a good engineer takes web IDE's seriously.

mark_l_watson 13y ago
I consulted at Google last year and I really liked the internal web based IDE, and I am sure a lot of people there would agree with me. I was talking to someone at Google last week and mentioned how much I enjoyed the web IDE, even in an early form. He said that it is getting more awesome quickly.
- korzun 13y ago
  You can't compare Googles infrastructure to an average start-up without security team or proper procedures that protect company data. Not to mention most of the start-ups have shitty uplink with no redundancy.

Edmond 13y ago

Native is faster but I think the browser will eventually catch-up enough that the difference would be negligible. There are also a lot of advantages to having at least web development done in the browser. I am the founder of Crudzilla Software (crudzilla.com), a browser based web app platform. I can tell you that there's a lot that our product is able to do because it is built in the browser that would be very difficult to accomplish in a native product. As far as issues of network connectivity, I think that's a legitimate concern but increasingly network connectivity is not an issue for most situations.

sparkyrizzo 13y ago

For sake of wasting a few minutes, I attempted to get sandbox up an running. Connection issues and dreadfully slow IDE. Beyond looking cool, what is the use case?