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Re:$149 Chromebooks by sjtechie on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @09:59PM (#9301101)
You mean like Atom? A lot of the web IDEs are pretty good nowadays. Not decades behind desktop software.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by ssmoot on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:48PM (#9301226)
No. Atom is a text-editor with plugins. It's no more a competitor for IntelliJ than UltraEdit was a competitor to Visual Studio.NET. (IMO)

But I was actually talking about in-browser environments like CodeAnywhere.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by rbanffy on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:53AM (#9302741)
Depending on the language and stack you choose, a text editor with a terminal and a REPL may be all you need. I spend most of my day switching between emacs, a terminal and a browser.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Mikeb85 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:18AM (#9301564)
Atom is in-browser. It just so happens to ship with its own browser (Atom-Shell is based on Chromium)...
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