Developers: Check out this in-the-browser IDE

Do you write code? Well, we haven't seen a major innovation in IDEs since, well, Visual Basic. Here Cloud9 has one: they put the IDE into the browser and everything runs on the cloud. Will you use it? Hear the founders talk about it, or learn more at http://cloud9ide.com/

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[kelvinmeeks]

Seriously? $15/month per developer? Give-me-a-break. Perhaps as an in-house hosted service - but this is a seriously flawed business idea for the public cloud.

[EdSF888]

Thank you for this video - I finally got some 10k ft overview of C9 - I've been using it for some time, but lacked that " overall direction". Comparing it to the power of Visual Studio however is a bit "cloudy". Syntax checking as you type has been with VS since ___. I can go on but this isn't a comment about this vs. that. C9 is a new way of development and I can't wait for it to, just like what most "new" things attempt to do, match "the desktop" and better it by being on the cloud.

[arvindcool21]

Great - it will be really wonderful to just kickstart and try something freeware and if it goes big, go to commercial as well.

[malgacho]

Good luck to them. But, as a developer, I can say we are a hostile bunch when it comes to change.

[420timetoburn]

@ 16:53 they answer your question.

[batchint]

*****

[electrodacus]

There is no problem for open source software to be written using an online IDE but I do not see a commercial software developed in this way.

[britishcoder]

Codeita is also in this space. They're a browser-based PHP/MySQL development environment with image editing and creation support, too. It's in beta right now and gives testers 100mb at no charge during the beta. I'm not in any way involved with the project, other than being a user who is enjoying using the product very much. You can try it out at codeita.com

[devinsipodhelp]

Seems interesting..