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The new Cloud9 development environment

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Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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I checked it out and it looks pretty sweet. But is there a way to get syntax highlighting for the Slim templating language that I'm not seeing? I use Slim extensively. No Slim, no Cloud9 for me.

There's syntax highlighting for over 110 languages (TextMate/Sublime Text.tm language files can be imported), but if yours is not included, the Ace editor we use is Open Source, so you can build your own highlighter (see http://ace.c9.io/#nav=higlighter) or submit a request to build it: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues?labels=mode-request&pa...

Re: The new Cloud9 development environment

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I will give them a try. I occasionally use the free tier at nitrous.io, and more frequently use a paid subscription to the Haskell web based IDE at fpcomplete.com. That said, for my main Haskell project (demo at http://haskell.knowledgebooks.com) I find local development using emacs to be more agile.

I saw the real benefits of a web based IDE when I worked at Google last year. They have an awesome chrome web based IDE that integrates really well with their codebase and source code management systems. I would expect other very large tech companies to go in the same direction of a customized development system.

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