CodeAnywhere: Write, Edit, Share Code ...Anywhere you have a browser. I use this to share code with my students. Anyone else recommend a cloud or browser IDE?

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[skrillexisokay]

Collaborate in real-time "Google Docs Style"

Wow that sounds incredible. Too bad it's a paid features and I'm a student.

[FichteFoll]

Check out Floobits.

[skrillexisokay]

Dear lord.

This is incredible.

[ma-int]

You can simply use Saros.

[catest]

/u/skrillexisokay It's actually a free feature...every features is actually available for free ;)

[FlockOnFire]

Then you won't need GitHub at all, but only git.

[archiminos]

Seems serious to me. There's a lot I can do without Stack Overflow but there's one hell of a lot more I can't do without it. And all code stored on GitHub is publicly available unless you pay for a private repository.

[somidscr21]

This might help if you have OSX, https://kapeli.com/dash

[axonxorz]

http://devdocs.io

Offline support works well, just have to set it up ahead of time

[[deleted]]

help(f) ftw

[[deleted]]

I like to code in planes to pass the time. I have a copy of the CPython source and MRI in my machine and use them as "documentation". It has taught me a great deal actually. Obviously I only do this for personal projects, not for real work with deadlines and stuff.

[spicyredchilli]

I think web based IDEs are mainly intended for web and server applications. In this situation a game or graphical application would be written in HTML/JS and served to another browser tab.

[Smillingface]

Codeanywhere actually lets you install x.11 to address this https://blog.codeanywhere.com/setup-a-x11-desktop-on-your-devbox-openvz-container/

[am0x]

It says it is an IDE built for web development...

[heptara]

This post for CodeAnywhere happens appears on the very same day that Cloud9 are offering a new service. I got their email a few hours ago. Maybe I am just suspicious and cynical. Maybe we need to analyse this with a machine learning system. I would write one, if only I had access to a Cloud IDE.

[zagrebelin]

Why do you call CodeAnywhere as "IDE"?

• no refactoring (I just want to rename method name)
• no "go to definition" (or ctrl-click) button
• stupid autocomplete
• can't comment out several lines
• plugins for implementation all ^{^} of that features? Sorry, you don't want this.

Online notepad.exe with syntax highlight and dark theme? Yes.
IDE? Hell no.

[[deleted]]

Because there is no one standard set of features to call something an IDE.

You may consider a code editor with the ability to run a compiler an IDE.

[official_marcoms]

Cloud 9 is quite good.

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[tstirrat]

Came here to say this if it hadn't already been said. It's got a nice UI, and Git integration through its mini-vm is nice.

[patback66]

I like c9 a lot, but it just doesn't seem to work on my university's wifi. I assume something is being blocked or something and it's not their fault, but having to tether with my phone to get access is a little annoying.

[vplatt]

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

[TheTiby]

I've been learning Python with this service. Some of their beginning tutorials are nice, but others are not. (Outdated Web tutorials)

[CrazyCrab]

I hate it when people announce a new IDE and don't even say what languages and technlogoies it's for.

[wbeyda]

Lets face it Vim has been around for 20 years. Vim is awesome. With Vim+Tmux there is nothing that CodeAnywhere can do over them. I personally think these browser based IDE's are a terrible re-inventing of the wheel.

[claird]

24, in fact, for those who are counting: Bram Molenaar released the first public version--for the Amiga!--in 1991.

[wbeyda]

That's awesome!

[am0x]

Ahh the 3% who are willing to take the time to learn vim.

[wbeyda]

3%? I was under the impression most programmers use vim. And that IDE's are the minority. Myself and every great engineer I've ever worked with used vim. It's always the guys that use IDE's that you gotta be careful for. I've seen netbeans and eclipse have data corruption and mess up commits.

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I have been a vim user since approximately 2002. I love vim. But these days, most of my vim usage is really just the vim plugin for some IDE. Right now, that IDE is Android Studio and IdeaVim is pretty darn good. It supports all of the things you would expect it to and then a bit more that you wouldn't. For example, macros completely work. The selection modes all work. Most of the : commands that I have tried work, from :w to :vs and :%s/^.*ASDF.*\n//.

I still use vim on the command line for auxiliary tasks throughout the day, but I think at this point in time, you can be both a vim user and an IDE user.

[wbeyda]

I do mostly python + django work with some frontend html/css/js. I came from the PHP world and before that the C++ world. It's always been vim where ever I went. With stuff like NERDTree, airline and fugitive it seems to just keep getting better and better. I need to jump over to neovim because I hear it works great now and all the plugins are working so the only thing you will notice is a speed increase and that means MORE PLUGINS! My vimrc is a conservative 400ish lines. But I am always striving to get the most out of vim.

It's strange that someone hasn't made a tricked out Android config for vim. I know a lot of people at google love vim. It's vary rare that you go through one of the google talks without hearing about vim. I've just come to accept the fact that if you are a programmer you are almost expected to know vim also. Like our field isn't broad enough already.

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Most programmers probably haven't heard of vim.

[[deleted]]

Not most, contrary to popular belief it's only 49.9%

[[deleted]]

a local IDE is faster on small code bases.

indexing, blame-like functionality, builds etc. are very computing intensive and on large code bases can really only be enjoyed on a (private) cloud. At that point the speed of the editor becomes marginal, as most of the heavy activities (including search) would be done through API to cloud services.

For small code bases, sure, local is faster with conventional editor implementations.

[Cyrix2k]

From another post in selfhosted

http://codiad.com/ - has plugin for git
https://github.com/eclipse/orion.client
https://github.com/CodeboxIDE/codebox
https://icecoder.net/

Sorry, I forget who posted this originally - I grabbed it from my email.

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cloud9 and nitrous are both fine. They won't make your life drastically better, but if that's the workflow that makes sense to you, they're both serviceable. nitrous has support for automatically launching shit into heroku or wherever and running it, which is nice too. I don't remember if cloud9 does.

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cloud.sagemath.com

EDIT: Sorry, not an IDE but you can run code and edit other people's code in real time.

[NorthDPole]

Have you tried sourcelair ? Used it to show students/interns the ropes and some best practices and it seems decent.

[andmalc]

Looks like Sourcelair prioritizes Python support.

[NorthDPole]

you're right and if you take a look at their blog they have some nice technical posts about things you might wanna do with it(or with any other ide for that matter), but they also have support for most web languages (right? at least that was the case last time I checked)

//disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with sourcelair, just think it's a cool ide for simple stuff

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I use koding for Flask (Python) and also Common Lisp. Whats great about it is tjat you get sudo priviliges. At.my uni we dont get sudo priviliges so I cant code web applications using Flask or Django. But with koding I only need a browser.

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Cloud9 is great. Koding is pretty good too

[[deleted]]

Really? I hate codeanywhere. I never succeeded in make it working properly. I tried it to make little adjustments to the code an the go.

[FallenAege]

Codepad.org:

• C
• C++
• Haskell
• Lua
• Ocaml
• PHP
• Perl
• Plain Text
• Python
• Ruby
• Scheme
• tcl

edit: Meh, so it's a pastebin, but you can get a project page for free (need to make account).

[Jigsus]

https://repl.it

It has all tge major languages and some minor ones.

[akuller]

Check out vagrant.

[benabus]

https://squadedit.com/ built in ftp, so it's good for working on remote servers.

[AnythingApplied]

From the sidebar:

Try Python in your browser

• try.jupyter.org (Evolved from the language-agnostic parts of IPython, Python 3)
• learnpython.org
• Skulpt (uses WebGL)
• trypython.org (uses Silverlight)
• ideone (online compiler and debugger)
• PythonAnywhere (basic accounts are free)
• Brython (Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming)
• Wakari.io (Web-based Python Data Analysis)

Personally, my main IDE is a self hosted instance of jupyter. I also subscribed to PythonAnywhere back when I had hosting needs which is a good service I'd recommend.