Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what would you want to see?

Posted by grolle on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:14PM
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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by discoversoon on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:27PM (#26826337)

How will it be different from Github CodeSpaces, CodeAnywhere, and other ones out there?

CodeSpaces works really really well

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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by grolle on Thursday April 15, 2021 @06:44PM (#26827132)

Its more a mix of ide and cloud provider.

The goal is to provide a much simpler experience compared to today's cloud providers and kubernetes, while giving the opportunity to ad-hoc code directly in the browser.

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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by knoebber on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:37PM (#26826442)

* Be able to work offline

* Good vim emulation, use neovim as a backend if possible

* Make it easy to configure and extend

* Low input latency

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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by grolle on Thursday April 15, 2021 @06:46PM (#26827146)

We ave a vim emulator but neovim sounds great :)

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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by gradschool on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:15AM (#26863645)

the ability to develop iOS apps in Swift and test them without buying a mac or an iPhone

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Re:Ask HN: I've got venture funds to build a cloud IDE, what... by grolle on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:41PM (#26866448)

wow that would be super awesome, have to check if licensing is possible (probably not)

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