I hope they won't be shut down in 6 month , C9 is handy when it comes to trying new techs quickly.
C9 only adds to existing AWS offerings. Don't see a reason that it'd be shut down.
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#14The best cloud IDE now with the biggest cloud service. little scary but very interesting at the same time
Amazon works coniniously to become the provider for everything you can imagine
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#15From their homepage:
> Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud
This is the first thing I see on loading their website. Is this their main selling point? Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"? It works perfectly fine on my local machine, and I could even automate syncing if I wanted. Also, I could just ssh into my server and start an editor there.
> Build WordPress, Django and Rails websites and test in 300+ browser/OS combinations.
Is this automated? Because who would want to test 300+ browser/OS combinations manually?
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#16Once fully integrated with AWS, this could offer a rather exciting, low friction way to work on the platform. Using Cloud9 to build, test, and deploy Lambda functions from a single interface with all the auth stuff dealt with automatically.. you could have some powerful APIs running in the cloud very quickly. (Maybe there's even a play for getting this stuff into the hands of non-engineering employees. Build the "Exc…
The last thing this world needs is mission-critical software edited willy-nilly through a "convenient" web browser interface. We as an industry can barely put our pants on in the morning on the best of days, and now this.
I'll counter with the suggestion that nothing about how you access an editor should impact your SCM process. Cloud9 has a terminal to run SCM tools and a light-featured Git UI if that's your thing.
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#17Once fully integrated with AWS, this could offer a rather exciting, low friction way to work on the platform. Using Cloud9 to build, test, and deploy Lambda functions from a single interface with all the auth stuff dealt with automatically.. you could have some powerful APIs running in the cloud very quickly. (Maybe there's even a play for getting this stuff into the hands of non-engineering employees. Build the "Exc…
The last thing this world needs is mission-critical software edited willy-nilly through a "convenient" web browser interface. We as an industry can barely put our pants on in the morning on the best of days, and now this.
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#18I really hope that the Cloud9 service keeps running, and maintains the free version that it currently provides. I have been using Cloud9 with the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial to teach new programmers the basics of programming with Ruby and Rails and it has greatly reduced the friction for them to start learning.
In previous classes we had the students setup a Ruby and Rails environment on their own systems and not only did that take multiple sessions to get setup, but then we were dealing with environment differences that took the focus away from the basics of learning Ruby nearly every session.
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#19Acqui-hiring at its finest. Amazon just wants to get Surefour.
In all seriousness though, I agree with the general sentiments here. I really hope C9 doesn't get shutdown, it's incredibly nifty and I've found it saving my butt a few times (quick set up for teaching new devs, working on a borrowed machine, working on university* , etc)
* ports aside from 80/433 are blocked, so I couldn't push/pull reliably. I ended up uploading everything to c9, then just using it to push/pull.
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#20From their homepage: > Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud This is the first thing I see on loading their website. Is this their main selling point? Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"? It works perfectly fine on my local machine, and I could even automate syncing if I wanted. Also, I could just ssh into my server and start an editor there. > Build WordPres…
> Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"?
I have a handful of devices which I like programming from - I use Eclipse Che (the tech behind Codenvy Beta, similar to Cloud9) for some of my projects and I have exactly the same environment on all of them.
There's other ways to accomplish this - sharing dotfiles between machines and using Docker for environments - but a cloud IDE makes it a bit easier and less hassle to set up.