I've been using a Cloud based IDE with Force.com development. (Which has both an 'in the browser' editor and a Eclipse instance which pushes your code to the cloud for complation). I'm also using a third party .Net application which replaces the official Force.com IDE.
They all suck. They are slow, unreliable and poorly featured. My Firefox instance regularly consumes > 1 GB of ram with 2-4 tabs open, and it gives me the code editing power of Notepad. IE is too slow, Chrome often not compatible. Beyond that, little things like losing your internet connection (for a few seconds, even intermittently) break your flow and with some flaking session handing and things like back button/refresh button issues, you lose your work more often than you would like. So, in short, no, I don't recommend a cloud based IDE. On Mar 30, 10:45 pm, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a great idea for some users and some use-cases. No it's not for > everybody, but it doesn't need to be. > > A really intriguing possibility of Eclipse Orion is the ability to run > in mixed mode, with a subset of developers coding in Orion, while > another subset codes in the traditional Eclipse desktop application. > This isn't possible right now but it's on the roadmap. > > Neil > > On Mar 28, 3:53 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > A lot are being announced, at the moment: > > > Eclipse's Orion and OrionHub > > eXo's Cloud IDE <http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/03/cloud-ide-java-exo> > > Cloud9 IDE <http://cloud9ide.com/> > > > From the user's side, not being able to work at all if the IDE provider > > service goes down seems like a big drawback. The only advantage seems to be > > maybe not having to set up a local environment. > > > From the provider's side, I wonder if this is even a viable business. > > Considering that paid Java IDEs are a pretty niche business, can a provider > > with ongoing costs make any money at it? > > > Would you use a cloud-based IDE? > > > Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
