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Would/Do you use Cloud-based IDEs?

2 points by misham ↗ HN
I'm wondering what people think of using a Cloud-based IDE such as shiftEDIT.net or cloud9ide.com.

Have you found it useful? Do you like the idea? Would you use it?

I'm asking as a developer looking at different tools out there.

While the idea is enticing - being able to use the same IDE where ever I have access to Internet and browser - it seems like these IDEs are missing support for back-end technologies like Rails/Node.js/PHP/etc.

What do you folks think?

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us
I personally love what I'm using now so it'd be extremely difficult to switch to anything else much less work with an online base IDE (which I'm not fond of; translated as I don't really care for an online IDE).
misham
What are you using?
us
VIM. Previously Coda
daleharvey
I currently use emacs and love its ability to be customised

however I love what the cloud9 guys are doing, I have started building a very specific editor (for couchdb couchapps) using the underlying ACE editor and I would love to see cloud9 or similiar turn into an emacs like generic editor that is suitable for any platform and fully customisable.

I am moving more and more of my apps to web based equivalents and would really like by the end of the year to be using a web based ide full time (and by web based I do not mean that it runs in the cloud, I mean built with html / css / js, I run cloud9 locally)

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IamNagz
i like the idea...have never used it though....trying it now :D
adamjimenez
ShiftEdit already has syntax error checking for PHP
misham
Sure and Cloud9 is working on getting PHP/Ruby/etc. integrated into their environment, but when you're working on the project you're using more than just PHP or Ruby or JS, it's a combination of several technologies - your application stack - that you run your code on. It seems that's what's missing.