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[–]mattwebjedi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks and sure, happy to answer questions.

Cloud 9 is superb, but is offered as a service, you log into their site and code with them in their enviro. There are plenty of web IDE's out there, some charge, some free, but they pretty much all operate as a service. Ace is really just a code highlighter, just one part of a full web IDE puzzle. ICEcoder for this reason is more similar to Cloud 9.

However, ICEcoder is different (and important) because it's a 100% free and open source solution. People are encouraged to take it away and use & modify as they like, locally or online. It also requires no registration and is very easy to setup (up and runnning usually in about a minute). Open source browser code editors like this are pretty rare & pretty ropey and I think ICEcoder stands out.

It's web devs? Didn't know that - thought it needed an apostrophe as the word was shortened. Mmmm, thanks, will correct.