Re:Adobe donated $5000 to JS-Git
by bsimpson on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:23PM
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They're betting the dev tools farm on Brackets, an open-source editor written in JS. To enable it to run on ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, or iOS, they need to have a better cloud filesystem story. Since git is the de facto format for sharing code across machines, they want to integrate git into Brackets. Then, you'd be able to write code on a device that doesn't have a traditional filesystem, locally caching changed resources and offloading the data persistence aspect to a service like BitBucket or GitHub.
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Re:Adobe donated $5000 to JS-Git
by caniszczyk on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:30PM
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Ah, I guess they are taking another approach than just using JGit... Eclipse Orion (similar to Brackets) services Git support via a service that is powered by JGit (and in theory, can be swapped out in the future): http://eclipse.org/orion/
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It shows a lot of promise. Coming from someone who basically despises adobe this platform has given them an ounce of respect from me. Very interesting ideas, a web 2.0 take on ides in general and aims at being a go to for all those engineers turned web developer. Im not sure if it was their idea or they copied it but cross file editing of css styles inline is especially cool. As is the fact that you can hack on the source during runtime.