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I've had good luck on Nitrous.io, even to the point that I'd seriously consider getting a Chromebook instead of a MacBook to do dev on. None of these systems t

I've had good luck on Nitrous.io, even to the point that I'd seriously consider getting a Chromebook instead of a MacBook to do dev on. None of these systems truly replicates the experience and flow of using VIM for me, but Nitrous seemed like the one that got closest for me to a really solid dev environment/ide on the web with minimum hassle. I haven't used Cloud 9 in a long time, so maybe this update makes it better.

filearts 12y ago
I'm a user of both Nitrous and c9. What I love about Nitrous.io is the speed of their console and the power that seems to be allocated to each box. What I really don't like is the editor component that they use which likes to interfere with my coding style. When I ask it to indent certain lines it seems to take that as a license to make its own decisions as to what the appropriate tab stop should be. Recent versions of CodeMirror have improved this a lot, but I remain a much bigger fan of the ACE (http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about) editor component used by (and open-sourced) the c9 team.
- redidas 12y ago
  You should check out the zed editor. Its something you can run locally (stand-alone or chrome app) and has a remote code component. I've used these cloud IDEs, but haven't like any of the text editors they supply. Zed is amazing compliment to these services. http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/ http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/
  - filearts 12y ago
    Big fan of Zef's work though I haven't tried Zed yet. Another really cool tool is TEdit by Tim Caswell. But before I toot their horns too loud, they are sort of competitors of mine as the creator of Plunker. Anyway, the more the merrier as long as well all get along and move the experience forward!
    - janjongboom 12y ago
      Funny thing that both Zef and Tim are former Cloud9 employees. They largely build upon the same stack with VFS[0] and Ace. [0] https://github.com/c9/vfs https://github.com/c9/vfs
      - zef_hemel 12y ago
        Neither of us use VFS, but indeed we do use Ace -- it's awesome.
  - chr1 12y ago
    Yep, Zed is very nice, And it uses Ace editor component developed by Cloud9.
- chip_zero 12y ago
  Try the minimal mode from the Welcome screen. It's pretty minimal: http://postimg.org/image/csdk4b85f/ http://postimg.org/image/csdk4b85f/. And you can always use Cloud9 with any SSH machine of your own you like.
- lennartcl 12y ago
  Check out the minimal mode that Cloud9 provides in the preferences/welcome screen. It makes Cloud9 look like an Ace editor without any of the cruft.

filearts 12y ago

I'm a user of both Nitrous and c9. What I love about Nitrous.io is the speed of their console and the power that seems to be allocated to each box. What I really don't like is the editor component that they use which likes to interfere with my coding style. When I ask it to indent certain lines it seems to take that as a license to make its own decisions as to what the appropriate tab stop should be. Recent versions of CodeMirror have improved this a lot, but I remain a much bigger fan of the ACE (http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about) editor component used by (and open-sourced) the c9 team.

redidas 12y ago
You should check out the zed editor. Its something you can run locally (stand-alone or chrome app) and has a remote code component. I've used these cloud IDEs, but haven't like any of the text editors they supply. Zed is amazing compliment to these services. http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/ http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/
- filearts 12y ago
  Big fan of Zef's work though I haven't tried Zed yet. Another really cool tool is TEdit by Tim Caswell. But before I toot their horns too loud, they are sort of competitors of mine as the creator of Plunker. Anyway, the more the merrier as long as well all get along and move the experience forward!
  - janjongboom 12y ago
    Funny thing that both Zef and Tim are former Cloud9 employees. They largely build upon the same stack with VFS[0] and Ace. [0] https://github.com/c9/vfs https://github.com/c9/vfs
    - zef_hemel 12y ago
      Neither of us use VFS, but indeed we do use Ace -- it's awesome.
- chr1 12y ago
  Yep, Zed is very nice, And it uses Ace editor component developed by Cloud9.
chip_zero 12y ago
Try the minimal mode from the Welcome screen. It's pretty minimal: http://postimg.org/image/csdk4b85f/ http://postimg.org/image/csdk4b85f/. And you can always use Cloud9 with any SSH machine of your own you like.
lennartcl 12y ago
Check out the minimal mode that Cloud9 provides in the preferences/welcome screen. It makes Cloud9 look like an Ace editor without any of the cruft.