Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: <a href="https://repl.it" rel="nofollow">https://repl.it</a>, <a href="https://glitch.me" rel="nofollow">https://glitch.me</a>, and now GitLab (and I'd be surprised if GitHub doesn't follow in tow).<p>Cloud9's acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there's still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports like Cloud9 did.<p>Personally I'm most optimistic for <a href="https://repl.it" rel="nofollow">https://repl.it</a>. They already have a core userbase in high school classrooms and have been adding a ton of support for serverside applications to make it more appealing outside of the classroom.
Why are people building these verticals? What happened to Unix philosophy? Build tools that do simple things, and make composition do the work for you.<p>I don't see why anyone needs an online IDE. Much less one interfaced with Gitlab. What next, invent a new cpu too?
> We are planning for an even better experience in the future: one where we can integrate and support more advanced features, such as a live environment to test your code against<p>This. Please.<p>I'm playing with a similar concept for GitHub: <a href="https://twitter.com/pomber/status/1003416752146075648" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pomber/status/1003416752146075648</a>
I wish GitLab would take whatever resources this has and put them all on site reliability.<p>They have a ton of open positions listed, but none are for Site Reliability Engineer.<p>Frequent slow requests and 5xx errors keep me from giving GitLab a real try.
At first I was excited about this. Then I tried it. There is no working set. Reloading the web page loses all changes.<p>This would have been a nice path to bring less technical folks into gitlab, say for writing articles and other copy. But I can already imagine the non-stop complaints about losing work.
What is the use for this? I mean how many people actually use such tools for actual day to day dev? Maybe for some quick edit if you don`t have laptop/computer at hand, but otherwise I see no real advantage of this.
I'll admit I'm a very poor "look and feel" person. But am I the only one who thinks that the zooming images on this webpage are hostile to the user?<p>(1) The zoom animation takes too long, I want to see the screenshot<p>(2) After zooming, it's still difficult to read to my 33-year-old eyes. I want a fullscreen image.<p>(3) After finishing squinting at the screenshot, I scroll down to read more text only to have that text MOVE while I'm reading it as the screenshots animate back to their original positions.
Hmm, at one point wasn't there a tight integration between Koding and GitLab? Or at least an attempt to make the tools more cooperative?<p>In fact a Koding acquisition by GitLab seemed like a no brainer.<p>FWIW ~2012-2013 there was Cloud9, Koding and Nitrous. Now that Nitrous is defunct and Cloud9 was acquired I'm not sure what fills the void.<p>Put differently is there a void to fill? Is there an actual demand for web IDE's? Or is this just bling?
GitLab is slowly on its way to compete with Microsoft, Google, JetBrains... I hope you guys create your own programming language as well to become a real software company ;-) Good luck!
Anyone remember back when Heroku had something sort of like a primitive version of this? Whatever happened to that? I spent many a high school lunch break in the library teaching myself how to make Rails apps using it
Looks interesting, but it has the same bug as the normal file editing in Gitlab. As soon as I click on edit, the syntax highlighting (no matter what theme I have selected) changes to something completely different.
I feel like StackBlitz beats all other Web IDEs since it's pretty much just VSCode in the Browser. The only one where TS code completion works and they can offer it very cheaply since the tech is so great that they don't even need to run a server to bundle anything. Just great! ATM it's only good for frontend apps though. My dream would be a combination of Cloud9 and the StackBlitz editor.
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Good job! This looks like a great code/text editor than an IDE at the moment.<p>You would need some sort of code navigation, debug and run capabilities to call it an IDE :) Hope to see more soon?<p>Redhat's OpenShift.io Eclipse Che integration would be a good example of a cloud IDE where you can could code,build and debug off a web-browser backed by a container-based workspace running on Kubernetes.
I have been using GitLab IDE in the past few months for documentation updates and it has been great. Whenever I see an outdated doc in the repo, I just click edit on the markdown file. It provides markdown preview and automatically creates patch-n branch and merge request for me without the need to touch my terminal. Super convenient.
Sourcegraph used to be an online vscode, simply the coolest back then, but seems no more, they suddenly changed direction, possibly due to conflict of interests with Microsoft?
I think they are spreading themselves too thin working on way too many features. Feature envy with github is not a good
way to define your roadmap.<p>They should drop everything and focus the most important feature: speed.
I'd love to see more symbiosis between editors and deployment tools.<p>I could write my code and tests in the browser editor, and just have a dashboard with everything I need to know.<p>Then when I'm at home I can use my editor and still hack the old fashioned way.<p>I wish Microsoft has bought gitlab instead of github. They could have this new editor tie in with azure or something cool like that. Like websharper, but for everybody else.
If multiple users could use the "IDE" at the same time I could move entirely off of GSuite. Right now being able to edit the occasional code block with 4 people watching is worth GDocs.
Gitlab is an awesome data center load tester, the only thing that's missing is a good github alternative.<p>ref: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978048" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978048</a>