It’s been tried multiple times, just doesn’t seem to have caught on. Maybe this time it will be different for the subset of applications to which development in the Cloud makes sense.
>From a NetBeans perspective it would mean ‘editor functionality as a service’ within a browser in a web browser, with a NetBeans runtime in the background, which is something that is implemented in one or more Oracle Cloud technologies right now. Gj On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 18:32, Kenneth Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > When I attended Microsoft Ignite, I was a guest of Microsoft, we were told > of a new version of Visual Studio that will be hosted in the cloud. You can > see it at https://online.visualstudio.com > <https://online.visualstudio.com/login>. You need a Microsoft account and > a free Azure account. You can see the details for yourself and the purpose > of this email is not to promote this offering. > > > > What this email is about is to discuss whether or not a cloud based > NetBeans is possible. With more and more users, therefore potential new > developers, using tablets and Chromebooks, less and less people will have > traditional PCs. Other languages such as Python have browser based IDEs. > Should we be investigating this? > > > > > > [image: cid:[email protected]] > > *Ken Fogel* > Faculty / Java Champion > > email: [email protected] > phone: (514) 931-8731 local 4799 > > Dawson College, 3040 Sherbrooke St. W > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/3040+Sherbrooke+St.+W+Westmount,%0D%0A+Quebec,+H3Z?entry=gmail&source=g> > Westmount, Quebec, H3Z > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/3040+Sherbrooke+St.+W+Westmount,%0D%0A+Quebec,+H3Z?entry=gmail&source=g> > 1A4, Canada > > [image: facebook icon] <https://www.facebook.com/ken.fogel> [image: > twitter icon] <https://twitter.com/omniprof> [image: youtube icon] > <https://www.youtube.com/kenfogel> [image: linkedin icon] > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenfogel/> [image: instagram icon] > <https://www.instagram.com/omniprof/> > > [image: cid:16cd4bdce7eaf8d708] <https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/> > > > > >
