Mark, if you'd like to try our version of a "web based IDE that gives you access to work with any code you have in your private Google-hosted git repos", check out the Source Editor feature of the Cloud Source Repositories: https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/docs/cloud...
Also, we're alpha testing some integration with the Source Editor and the Cloud Shell right now, so anyone that would like to participate in that alpha test can drop me a line: [email protected].
Chris Sells Cloud Developer Tooling Product Manager
Re:Google Cloud Shell
by mark_l_watson on Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:54PM
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Thanks Chris.
So far the biggest advantage of web IDE for me was ability to bypass corporate firewall.
What most web IDEs still get wrong is version control. I want to work on live code and then push it to version control. I do not want another copy of code that I have to push to server and version control.
Cloud Shell is a bit different in the sense you would not want to try anything resource intensive on a micro instance. But for coordinating other services it makes sense.
I think Google needs to add one more thing to their cloud development toolkit: a public version of something close to their cider web based IDE that gives you access to work with any code you have in you private Google-hosted git repos, AppEngine and VPS services. nitrous.io has something like this, and I think that Google would do well to offer something similar for using the public version of their infrastructure.