I'm wondering what people think of using a Cloud-based IDE such as shiftEDIT.net or cloud9ide.com.<p>Have you found it useful? Do you like the idea? Would you use it?<p>I'm asking as a developer looking at different tools out there.<p>While the idea is enticing - being able to use the same IDE where ever I have access to Internet and browser - it seems like these IDEs are missing support for back-end technologies like Rails/Node.js/PHP/etc.<p>What do you folks think?
I currently use emacs and love its ability to be customised<p>however I love what the cloud9 guys are doing, I have started building a very specific editor (for couchdb couchapps) using the underlying ACE editor and I would love to see cloud9 or similiar turn into an emacs like generic editor that is suitable for any platform and fully customisable.<p>I am moving more and more of my apps to web based equivalents and would really like by the end of the year to be using a web based ide full time (and by web based I do not mean that it runs in the cloud, I mean built with html / css / js, I run cloud9 locally)
I personally love what I'm using now so it'd be extremely difficult to switch to anything else much less work with an online base IDE (which I'm not fond of; translated as I don't really care for an online IDE).