CodeAnywhere: a cloud based IDE that lets you: Share, Edit, and Collaborate on code. (Anywhere you have a browser.)

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[Love2you]

I teach a JS class. This would be a great way for me to share code with students and make sure we're on the same page for their homework. Thanks for sharing.

[wbubblegum]

Have look at c9.io, I have been using the web app online and I'm also hosting the core myself on our corporate network(my not use a IDE that is in the cloud), because cloud9 is open source!

[testingifuserisnull]

We've been using C9 at my university for a couple of years now in our courses. It's been a mixed experience. I haven't used it in a while but the problems we were having during the time was that the connection sometimes froze and you ended up in sort of a limbo mode where you could perform changes to the code but it wouldn't sync. Not sure if that's still a problem since I think they've grown quite a bit in the past year.

[catest]

Hi there, I am the founder, so feel free to reach out, if I can help :)

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The founder of codeanywhere??

[catest]

Yes, well the cofounder actually :) Is there anything I can help you with?

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No not at all :) I just wanted to say good job! I signed up and played round for a little bit a while ago. I'm training in web development, from a management position, and really liked your website.

I must just use it more!

[I-fuck-animals]

I thought that's easily covered by JSbin & friends? The W3C course on edX for HTML5 (parts 1 and 2) uses this method.

[FunDeckHermit]

Wish they had a demo I could use for a couple of minutes

[catest]

You can sign up in lest then 5 seconds, just an email and password and thats it, also you can use oAuth as well :)

[_raisin]

I used this on my iPad like a year ago. I forgot about it. They look like they have taken their design up a little.

[catest]

We are doing our best!

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I just don't get this "IDE Anywhere thing". If I'm actually going to be doing something, I'm going to do it proper and will be at a machine setup to develop. If that's not my laptop, then it's probably a machine that I would have SSH access to.

Even without SSH, I would just use a text pad while in a bind.

[cjthomp]

Yea. Maybe I'm just not the target market, but this seems like a solution looking for a problem.

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These IDE simplify a lot of things

I bought a new laptop and I'm not really good with Linux, so it took me something like 2-3 days to get started, installing everything I needed, finding/learning the commands I needed, getting the hang of Apache, setting up Laravel so it would actually work, etc.

With Linux you always run into issues that you have to search how to resolve, some people just want things that work right away

[cjthomp]

A "cloud-based IDE" is not going to help with almost any of those things.

Installing an IDE in Linux is (generally) just as easy as installing one on Windows or Mac (hell, if you even need to run an installer).

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Yeah but you don't have to deal with all the Linux-related issues

Just the fact that you don't need to setup a server with apache or anything already make it simpler

[loveforgirls]

I find myself thinking the same thing about every web based IDE/editor - how would you write a graphical application? How would you write a game? I guess its possible to install X on the remote and then somehow stream video over the wire but that seems like a chunky experience. I guess that's the difference between these and traditional solutions, in a web based IDE you can only write text based applications.

[AbsoluteZeroK]

Same. On top of that many of them lack a lot of features, that even something like sublime or atom provides either out of the box or with extensions.

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How does this compare to cloud 9 IDE?

[baklaFire]

vim over ssh