Quick question: for my side project I currently pay money monthly for both Cloud9 and GitHub, but I am very open to switching tools. One of the things I love about storing code in the cloud and manipulating code in the cloud is that absolutely nothing needs to touch my local machine, which means I'm free to use (almost) whatever machine I want with (almost) any browser or (almost) any platform I want. It also means switching costs are next to nil, since I don't have to worry about if it runs on a Mac or Windows or what native tooling I have.
However, a big problem I've discovered with Cloud9 is that it doesn't run on iOS and there are seemingly no plans to make that happen. I'm beginning to transfer over a lot of my work to an iPad, and with the incredible power offered by modern iOS systems, not supporting the platform seems a huge miss.
I see in your slides you're working on a web IDE for GitLab, and in some of the comments on the open issue, iOS is mentioned. Can you answer if mobile platforms like iOS are really in the roadmap?
As a paid customer, I'd switch in a heartbeat if I could use the same IDE on my Mac, PC, and iPad.
I'm using Cloud9 and Bitbucket. I was thinking just the other day how I would love to ditch my main rig for an iPad. Researching this some it looks like Duet or Puffin Browser gets Cloud9 mostly working.
I do use Duet, but it's just an app to make an iPad a second monitor, it doesn't allow me to take it with me and leave my Mac at home.
I'm not really understanding why anyone would build a web IDE in 2017 without iPad support. Web IDEs targeting x86 platforms are already plentiful and mature, and people on x86 platforms tend to ignore them for more traditional desktop IDEs because their computer can already run all of the code or containers they might need. But those don't really exist on an iPad, which I'd think is the ideal target for a cloud IDE.
However, a big problem I've discovered with Cloud9 is that it doesn't run on iOS and there are seemingly no plans to make that happen. I'm beginning to transfer over a lot of my work to an iPad, and with the incredible power offered by modern iOS systems, not supporting the platform seems a huge miss.
I see in your slides you're working on a web IDE for GitLab, and in some of the comments on the open issue, iOS is mentioned. Can you answer if mobile platforms like iOS are really in the roadmap?
As a paid customer, I'd switch in a heartbeat if I could use the same IDE on my Mac, PC, and iPad.