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One quick piece of feedback: some of the grammar felt strange. I'm assuming you aren't native english speakers? No problem, I'm sure someone can help you polish that later.
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Are you sure that you like the idea of in-browser editors? The only feature that I see as useful is the "zero deployment/any device" and I can't imagine that feature coming in handy very often. What else do you like about them? If you like vim or emacs - the Cons seem to far outweigh the one Pro that I can see for these types of editors: - Online only. - Client and service back-end usually not open source. - Far less…
Well, if everything else was equal and all features implemented the "zero deployment/any device" would be a great thing, no? As I said I like the idea, not current implementations. Personally I would use it - and even if it had only a fraction of functionality I mentioned - for remote pair programming. It's so hard to make people feel comfortable with Emacs/Vim+screen/tmux! As an aside, I think that an online editor…
Also, regardless of scripting abilities, online editors are still limited to the abilities of the browser.
What is different about this from Cloud9 (genuinely interested in the answer)?
We really try to focus on simplicity and extensibility.
We're trying a few different approaches, one of them being providing a whole network besides the code editor itself, so people can share plugins, build teams, find freelancers (that kind of stuff).
Cloud9 is very good, we're just about 6 months old and a two man team, so we're exploring things and trying to innovate.
Hope that answers your question.
Nice work! Have you played with Koding.com at all? This is very similar and seems to be a space that is heating up. I will definitely give this a shot. One quick piece of feedback: some of the grammar felt strange. I'm assuming you aren't native english speakers? No problem, I'm sure someone can help you polish that later.
It seems like coding is really focusing on it's social features and wants to become the "facebook for developers".
I can't condemn that, but I think there is more value to be built, by focussing on improving the coding experience and it's simplicity.
We're a two man team, I'm a native english speaker, but taking care of the backend side of things I don't always have the time to perfect the grammar mistakes my co-founder makes.
He's french by the way, and I think he still does a pretty good job :)
Thanks for pointing that out, we'll definitely improve that when things calm down a bit
Anyone know of a self-hosted variant of this? I'd kill for the ability to toss some file on a webserver & use it to edit files locally..
It would be nice if I didn't have to set up _another_ repo. Integrating with GitHub or BitBucket would be preferred (be backed by, not just import). That said, I wouldn't actually use it since GitHub lets you edit individual files through the UI. Just an observation. The rest looks nice though.
If you connect your Github account we'll import your GitHub repositories.
And we do have a primitive and slightly awkward way of pushing back to your github repository. That will be improved in the coming days. To make it more obvious and easier.
Thanks for pointing that out. We want to integrate as well as possible with current existing services.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel regarding code hosting and we want to focus on what makes us different.
Hope that answers your question.
This looks pretty cool and I'm going to check it out, but I'm not signing up with GitHub since you ask for access to my private repos by default. Given that I use GitHub for my day job, I'm not really comfortable giving a service I've never heard of access to our code base. It would be great if this was opt-in. (e.g. ask for my public repos now and then ask me later about private ones)
We don't import your private repositories as of now, only your public ones.
I think you did good to point this out, we'll make it more clear and visible in the future.
We're only six months into our adventure so far and we're in beta, but we're definitely improving.
And your feedback is very helpful. Thanks for that
This looks interesting. Is there--or will there be--any kind of integration with GitHub, SourceForge, et al?
We do integrate with Github and Heroku as of now.
Expect this integration to involve over time and we'll also integrate with other services (Amazon AWS, DotCloud ...)