A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
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A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
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Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#2I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments.
The only reason I can think of for the existence and continuous implementations of this idea is when you regularly develop on different machines where you can't set up development environments. And here again I can't imagine why such a thing would ever happen to a typical programmer, let alone to a team of developers (presumably at a company).
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#3I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
I use Sublime Text 3 + GOSublime on my Mac and it has been a nice experience for developing golang apps. But I can see the appeal of web based IDE when combined with tools like nitrous.io, where your development tools are all in the cloud and you don't have to setup everything local just to start coding.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#4I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
I also don't get the point.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#5I also don't want to sound arrogant, but I would like to address this point:
> Text editor (vim/emacs/sublime/Atom, etc.): For the Go newbie is too complex
Text editor may be hard(?) to setup for a go newbie, although I do not personally agree with this statement, but at least local shell + text editor + command line compiler is a well known and understood stack. A newbie having a problem with it can always ask for help - coworkers, friends, online, etc., and solution is always within her control.
Replacing this stack with a web-based one will change a set of known problems into a set of unknown problems, outside of anybody's control, except for the b3log and their team. And their software is fresh and untested, and surely contains a lot of bugs, as any new code.
I'm not sure that sounds like a good value proposition - not to me.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#6I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
I use Sublime Text 3 + GOSublime on my Mac and it has been a nice experience for developing golang apps. But I can see the appeal of web based IDE when combined with tools like nitrous.io, where your development tools are all in the cloud and you don't have to setup everything local just to start coding.
How do you find debugging?
Debugging was one of the primary reasons of moving away from Sublime3 for me, though I didn't try Sublime with Go.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#7I think it looks pretty cool. I think I'll try to set it up and have it as a backup option when all I have is a browser.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#8A couple of comments:
1) There are a few comments the question the appeal of web based IDEs. My view is that this because IDEs are generally quite refined pieces of software: the people who use them are also authors, etc. It's hard for a new IDE of any type to compete with that at the start.
HOWEVER, Web-based IDEs have some very attractive features. The ability to always have it available and customised to how you want it, with state shared across multiple computers is very attractive. Remote compilation and dependency/library management is much nicer than local, especially with the integration automatic versioning. Shared, multiuser coding spaces are also much more natural.
2) Regarding this IDE: I'd love a good Go IDE. The thing that stopped me diving deeply into Go last time I tried it was that I missed refactoring support. At least it seems to have autocomplete.
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#9I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
One advantage would be that any improvements to the web IDE would directly benefit all its users.
On the other hand, improvements you make to your personal local dev environment are local and not helpful to others.
Consider the time it took you, when learning Go, to setup gofmt on save, then after some time you might discover goimports and start using that. A newbie coming into Go will not have the benefit of goimports-on-save the way you do.
However, if they use the same web IDE, they will have the same good initial experience as you.
Just answering the question directly... That is one advantage.
(Also, lots of people are using an outdated version of goimports with bugs that have been fixed upstream; this should be a lesser problem with a web IDE.)
Re: A Web IDE for Teams using Golang
#10A couple of comments: 1) There are a few comments the question the appeal of web based IDEs. My view is that this because IDEs are generally quite refined pieces of software: the people who use them are also authors, etc. It's hard for a new IDE of any type to compete with that at the start. HOWEVER, Web-based IDEs have some very attractive features. The ability to always have it available and customised to how you w…
2) i have a kickstarter coming in a few days =]