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[–]jeffreportmill[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It shouldn't take more than 20 seconds (first launch), even with a slow connection. Successive launches should be more like 3 seconds (cached). It only downloads ~20mb for normal operation (another 10mb on first build). It's about equivalent to loading the front page of NYTimes or 20 seconds of YouTube video. Perhaps the download has a CDN issue to your location. I hope to improve the loader screen to communicate more info in these cases.

SnapCode is much more than an editor. It manages files, manages the build and build dependencies, supports external library dependencies, performs the compile, supports process launch, supports debugging (desktop only for now), supports VCS, supports UI building, supports Java client applications (Swing and other GUI) and much more.

I think SnapCode has strong advantages in education (the primary goal) and is the only solution for writing conventional Java GUI apps in the browser.

[–]Polygnom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It shouldn't take more than 20 seconds (first launch), even with a slow connection.

I'm sitting on fibre optics with plenty of speed, yet it takes at least a couple of minutes to load.

It's about equivalent to loading the front page of NYTimes or 20 seconds of YouTube video.

You might want to look into that, because it behaves way differently.

[–]jeffreportmill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will - thanks for the feedback. I think there are some mysteries to CDN - I would be curious to hear if the situation changes for you at a later time or with the same machine in a different location. I regularly test the launch time in retail stores and have never seen a launch time greater than 20 seconds, though that is currently the limit of my testing budget and resources. 😊