I suspect this is a lot of work that needs to be done. Investigating is easy, but who will work on it day after day?!
Years ago I had a chunk of NetBeans in an applet (not JNLP, a sandboxed applet). Oracle tried making an editor with a NB backend, but they never open-sourced the web client. We just saw the big refactorings that happened to separate the Swing from non-Swing code (because, who wants Swing in their app server?). I think it might be simpler to take some pre-existing web editor (maybe from VS Code?) and plug in the NetBeans power related to indexing / completion / refactoring / etc. Speaking of Chromebooks, they have virtualised Linux now and Google was mentioning running Android studio in there so it seems obvious you could run NetBeans such way too. I'm not really into getting more Chromebooks nowadays (have 2 already, before the Linux feature) but it's a nice angle to explore for a tiny-tiny niche. --emi On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:32 PM Kenneth Fogel <kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca> 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:image011.jpg@01D58921.806E3550] > > *Ken Fogel* > Faculty / Java Champion > > email: kfo...@dawsoncollege.qc.ca > phone: (514) 931-8731 local 4799 > > Dawson College, 3040 Sherbrooke St. W Westmount, Quebec, H3Z 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/> > > > > >
