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Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by sergimansilla »

tluyben2 wrote: post #20

I like these kind of projects/efforts and it looks great, but this thing is quite buggy. And some parts, like the sign up process might not even be buggy but just bad workflow. And it's too expensive IMHO. You need to make money, but for what it offers now, at least to me, it's not worth it. Other than that, hopefully you'll improve it and make it a real online IDE.

We just launched, and we are trying to squash every bug we run into. Could you be more specific about the 'buggy' part you mention? Some particulars about it would really help us to make it better, we would really appreciate it!

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by silverbax88 »

sergimansilla wrote: post #3
JohnTitus wrote: post #2

How well does it do with non-javascript code? If I could code ruby on rails on it, and deploy from w/in it to Heroku, I'd sign up today. (happy feature creep!)

We are working on it. We aim to support all the major languages and their popular frameworks soon. For now you have syntax highlighting for Ruby and more languages, which combined with GitHub integration already makes it a sweet platform to develop on.

Does that include MS languages (C#, etc.?)

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by javruben »

mdasen wrote: post #11

Not to sound cheap, but the first thing I note is the pricing. It's a little confusing. Does 33 cents per day mean that I'm only charged on days that I use it? So, if I use it Monday - Friday, I'll typically pay 7 Euros per month rather than 10 Euros? Or is it merely saying that it's only 33 cents per day? I'm also unsure what you mean by a workspace. In the UI photos, there's the concept of a "project", but I'm unsu…

Great comments. So I just answered about pricing on a comment below, but here's the gist of it:

We charge per day to give you the flexibility of the cloud. Cloud9 is not an IDE alone, it's your tooling + test environment in the Cloud. So it's hosted, hosting costs money and we charge you for it. The idea is that if you are doing a commercial project with a good hourly rate, then paying 50 cents a day for the platform isn't a lot if it saves you significant time. If you're working on an open source project, Cloud9 is free.

The value is that you don't have to configure your systems, you dont have to keep them up to date and you'll be developing on a system that is identical to your deployment target. We're adding good deployment support soon to many different cloud hosters. This way deployment should be really a click of a button. Then there is the value of collaboration. Being able to work together with others from within Cloud9, editing and running code.

We are adding Ruby support soon, including step through debugging and gem support. We have webdav support and we'll soon support mounting your drive on your local machine for external applications to access your files.

For now, try Cloud9 for your open source projects and see how you like it. There are many more features to come in the coming weeks and months.

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by javruben »

silverbax88 wrote: post #22
sergimansilla wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are working on it. We aim to support all the major languages and their popular frameworks soon. For now you have syntax highlighting for Ruby and more languages, which combined with GitHub integration already makes it a sweet platform to develop on.

Does that include MS languages (C#, etc.?)

We are looking into Mono Support, but we don't have a date set for this on the roadmap.

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by javruben »

vyrotek wrote: post #23

Reminds me of http://www.coderun.com which supports C#, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. (and is free) I'm curious to know what I get for this paid version? Is it mostly the Git support?

A difference is that we support actual step through debugging for javascript. Indeed git support is another differentiator. Our Git UI will be released shortly too. We have a pluggable architecture to very easily extend cloud9 with new features. We are working with many developer oriented companies to add their services and tooling to Cloud9. Our aim for Cloud9 is to provide a full PaaS for software development in the cloud.

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by tluyben2 »

sergimansilla wrote: post #21
tluyben2 wrote: post #20

I like these kind of projects/efforts and it looks great, but this thing is quite buggy. And some parts, like the sign up process might not even be buggy but just bad workflow. And it's too expensive IMHO. You need to make money, but for what it offers now, at least to me, it's not worth it. Other than that, hopefully you'll improve it and make it a real online IDE.

We just launched, and we are trying to squash every bug we run into. Could you be more specific about the 'buggy' part you mention? Some particulars about it would really help us to make it better, we would really appreciate it!

This is probably more usability than a bug, but when I clicked from HN to the site, I clicked on login without checking the rest of the screen, as usually the login screen contains some link to register. These days i'm used to, when I see a 'sign in with xxx' (oAuth) that login / register do the same thing, even if you don't have an account.

To me it felt a bit unstable because of this. Although it's a matter of reading everything on the screen, I would be surprised if anyone actually does that, so probably better to change the flow in that case.

Anyway, after that I entered a Github url (naive as I am) which is private, but in my Github account with which I'm signed up to Cloud9IDE. I got a not so user friendly popup saying an error occured, with a key and some JSON included.

So I concluded I cannot use private repositories (?) and clicked on the + to add a new project, typed in Test and clicked create. I clicked open source in the follow up dialog and no extra users. After clicking next it suddenly said 'Forking, this could take a few seconds'. I thought; what is it forking? This is an empty project. Then another popup with about the same error as before. It appeared that even though I created a fresh, empty project, it took my GIThub URL and tried to use that! So instead of my 'Test' empty project, it now showed the name of my private project from Github, with no files in it.

Any comments on the pricing btw? EDIT: nevermind, answered while I was typing this.

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by defrex »

javruben wrote: post #25
silverbax88 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does that include MS languages (C#, etc.?)

We are looking into Mono Support, but we don't have a date set for this on the roadmap.

  we don't have a date set for this on the roadmap
Read: never going to happen

Re: Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere

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Post by bwindels »

The homepage doesn't work for me on safari 5.0.3 on mac. The "I say what's this" link doesn't do anything and none of the screenshots on the bottom of the page are visible. I thought the page was like that and was anxiously looking for screenshots.

The webkit inspector reports the following error: apf_release.js:1 TypeError: Result of expression 'this.$ext' [null] is not an object.

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