Cloud 9 is an Online IDE. It is one of the most awesome applications of cloud computing created in the last few years. It is now my go-to tool, despite using multifeatured IDEs such as Xcode and Visual studio in different past roles.

Its chief rival as an online IDE ought to be CodeAnywhere. CodeAnywhere has a slick interface and a great iPad app. Maybe CodeAnywhere lost me when I had to remember a password. Perhaps CodeAnywhere lost me with the complexity of typing in the URL into an address bar. Perhaps it's a vi vs emacs thing, I just have an innate preference.

This is a short wishlist for those at cloud 9.





1 - Make an iPad app for me. I don't care about programming on my phone. My fat fingers are too clumsy to type a text message well. Anything longer is not really a relevant question. An iPad app - now you are talking powerful.





2 - I want to save my own app templates. I'm experimenting in Go, and I like my own setup for python with flask. Whilst the selection of workspaces is good. I reckon I could cut down on my yak shaving if I could make my own workspaces and save them. This should be easy enough even if I need to play with Docker a little.

A good selection, but I want to shave less yaks

3 - Another sharing mode. The read and write mode is quite scary. What if someone I'm working with puts something dangerous in a bit of code whilst I'm not looking. Can I have a "suggest" mode like in the newer model of Google Docs? Where my co-programmer can make a suggestion, and I get to accept or reject the change.



