Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#1

Post by jaxn » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 4:33 PM UTC

All of this talk about the new Chrome notebook has me thinking about moving coding to the cloud.

Almost all of the coding I do now is stuff that is hosted at github. I don't see any reason that couldn't be done in a browser. It looks like Mozilla has a project targeted at this (https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/ formerly Bespin).

Are there any others? Are any HNers coding this way already? And yes, I know that vi/emacs + ssh is viable, but that is not the topic ;)

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#2

Post by shaunxcode » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 4:50 PM UTC

I saw http:///www.coderun.com posted here the other day.

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#3

Post by jaxn » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 4:59 PM UTC

shaunxcode wrote: post #2

I saw http:///www.coderun.com posted here the other day.

All of the images on that page are broken (in Safari). That doesn't exactly instill confidence.

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#4

Post by jscheel » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:11 PM UTC

I haven't used skywriter, since it was bespin, but I was impressed with the progress at the time. http://kodingen.com/ looks pretty nice though.

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#5

Post by gawker » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC

shaunxcode wrote: post #2

I saw http:///www.coderun.com posted here the other day.

I'm curious about how would you sandbox the code that users write so that it won't affect the system?

Would love to see an open source implementation!

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#6

Post by IdeaHamster » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:28 PM UTC

This seems like a promising implementation of Vi in Javascript: http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#7

Post by hasenj » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

IdeaHamster wrote: post #6

This seems like a promising implementation of Vi in Javascript: http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

Nice, but heads up: it doesn't play nice with Vimium (chrome extension).

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#8

Post by melvinram » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

Heroku had launched initially with an online code editor though they phased it out. Not sure if it's available online anywhere now days.

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#9

Post by bretthoerner » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

This is what I do on mine,

Control + Alt + T; ssh user host; emacs -nw

Re: Ask HN: Web-based coding text editors? (for coding on the cr48)

#10

Post by kluikens » Fri, Dec 10, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

jscheel wrote: post #4

I haven't used skywriter, since it was bespin, but I was impressed with the progress at the time. http://kodingen.com/ looks pretty nice though.

(clickable)

https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/