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sysrpl

This is interesting:

http://www.coderun.com/

exoteric
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A bit of a toy, but one has to be a little impressed at the lengths people go to, to accomplish something, regardless of the platform. Like building a raytracer in Javascript. It even has some kind of intellisense, although the beloved tab is now your enemy.

sysrpl

In reply to exoteric

#Sep 30th @ 9:37 AM

One obvious side effect:

They own any code you put into the thing.

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In reply to sysrpl

#Sep 30th @ 10:30 AM

No, they don't. That's spelled out in the license agreement.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Anyone on C9 remember "yman" from 2005/2006? He made his own web-based IDE called "Webdev", it even compiled your code on the server and let you download the built exe/dll file. He even made a web-based WinForms designer (not bad for someone aged 15 at the time!). He lost interest in his project after no-one really used it. It's a shame because only now people are beginning to start to take these things seriously.

...especially Microsoft. First it was Outlook Web Access in 1998, then Office Communicator Web Access in 2005, now we have Office Web. A few years down the line Microsoft will add "Visual Studio Web Access" to TFS server.

magicalclick

In reply to W3bbo

#Sep 30th @ 3:58 PM

Yup, it is about timing sometimes. Like how terminal server was moved to faster client, and moving back to thin client again. If timing is right, you go out with a boom. Otherwise you need to create that boom with a lot of ads.

But IMO, it has to do with convinience. Does the IDE make us more productive? And mostly, can it debug and create runtimes on our own mahine, or at least downloaded exe automatically and debug on our own machine. It is sort of like how Vista fails because it wasn't able to match the productiveness of XP (aka messy control panel and UAC controvercy).