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Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by filearts »

Plunker (http://plnkr.co) is a site in the top 9k globally (per Alexa) and was developed exclusively in Cloud9IDE (http://c9.io).

I have several computers that I use at different times and being able to switch computers without friction has been the a major boon to productivity. I also love the IDE itself. For someone doing node.js work (in pure javascript), the built-in tools are fantastic.

EDIT: Other relevant fact is that this is all hobby development work as I am not a professional programmer. As such, I have never had the time or motivation to really create a custom dev environment of my own. Cloud9IDE gives me a great setup without any tweaking needed.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by mark_l_watson »

LukeHoersten wrote: post #4

FPComplete built a web IDE for Haskell development but recently decided to open-source the backend and focus on tools instead: https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/04/future-of-soh-fphc

+1 The FPComplete web based Haskell web IDE is very good.

I worked at Google for a while in 2013 and they had an awesome web IDE named Cider. I wonder if that is still in use internally at Google.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by SteveMoody73 »

The only one I've tried is the mbed development tools. Easy to import libraries and built in version control.

I'm not sure how good it would be for a big project but it's been a pleasant experience with the few small programs I've written on it so far.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by mmgutz »

filearts wrote: post #35
task_queue wrote: post #23

No, because none of them contain the static analysis and developer tools one comes to expect from a competent IDE. Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.

On both points, that is the exact opposite of my experience doing Node.js/Javascript/CSS/HTML in Cloud9IDE. It is clear that the browser environment imposes some restrictions on what an online IDE can do (restricted hotkeys, no on-machine filesystem access). Notwithstanding that, I've come to prefer the Cloud9IDE environment over local options and love being able to pick-up where I left off as I switch between comput…

You can do that with Vim/Emacs, tmux on less than $5/mo VPS. Chrome has a pretty good SSH terminal extension.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by geofft »

task_queue wrote: post #23

No, because none of them contain the static analysis and developer tools one comes to expect from a competent IDE. Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.

> No, because none of them contain the static analysis and developer tools one comes to expect from a competent IDE.

So nobody uses emacs or vi without static analysis plugins either?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by TylerJewell »

Founder of Codenvy. There are 400K projects built on Codenvy hundreds of on-prem cloud installations. When we look through the saas project types, about 60% are Java and the rest are scripted language types. When we poll our saas users, most of them are in teams of Our on-prem customers are enterprise. So a lot of WebSphere, WebLogic, maven, ant, node, Oracle DB, SQL Server, Postgres.

We also have about a dozen OEM customers that use Eclipse Che or its derivatives to create new embedded or hosted IDEs. SAP is adopting Eclipse Che at the core for building new business applications that have dev IDE built in. IBM is doing similar work with Orion on BlueMix. WSO2 is embedding cloud IDEs into their API management servers using Che.

We try to capture real user reviews, which always help. A lot of the cloud IDEs are on these sites:

Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/codenvy/lefigjbiim...

Stackshare: http://stackshare.io/codenvy

Slant: http://www.slant.co/topics/713/viewpoints/3/~what-is-the-bes...

Capterra: http://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/spo...

GetApp: https://www.getapp.com/it-management-software/a/codenvy-deve...

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using a web IDE for most of their development work?

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Post by Maultasche »

mrfusion wrote: post #32

Ok really dumb question. How do they see your local files?

They don't. The files are stored on the server.

I imagine that one can upload local files to the server, but when you're saving a file or compiling, it's all being done on the server side rather than locally.

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