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Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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Still no word on the OSS part. Last commit on master was November last year. I like it as a service for my personal use and OSS work. But employers will mostly not allow me to use a hosted service to edit their code; I've tried.

And the Open Source distribution of Cloud9 has always been a complete nightmare to install (in my experience). It's always felt like the OSS part was for show ("hey, use our cloud service - it's also (sort of) OSS").

That's exactly why we're spending the extra time to polish our open source release to make it really easy to install, fully documented, etc.

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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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/

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!

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

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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Also note that all of our work on Ace was done directly on the open source repository " rel="nofollow">http://github.com/ajaxorg/ace> . An update open source version of the IDE will follow soon.

Any idea how soon? Otherwise, how about your best guess on the probable order of magnitude that the estimate will be? (days, weeks, months?)

weeks

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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post #49
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Still no word on the OSS part. Last commit on master was November last year. I like it as a service for my personal use and OSS work. But employers will mostly not allow me to use a hosted service to edit their code; I've tried.

And the Open Source distribution of Cloud9 has always been a complete nightmare to install (in my experience). It's always felt like the OSS part was for show ("hey, use our cloud service - it's also (sort of) OSS").

To be fair, the ACE editor has been quite the opposite. Well documented and well supported (on their Google Group, nightwing is VERY responsive).

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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Not to be confused with the Cloud9 esports team: http://cloud9.gg

True story: I initially thought Cloud9 (the esports team) was sponsored by Cloud9 (the development environment). They've even both got blue cloud logos! Maybe they should think about cutting a deal, if their thing with HyperX isn't too exclusive?

Hey, there is more of us...
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