Eclipse Orion

Nice that they're trying, but it doesn't do even the basic stuff that the last crop of in-browser IDEs did.<p><pre><code> - open the page - click to the end of line 15 (inside the try, before the return) - hit ENTER Expected: caret goes to the same indent level as previous line Actual: caret goes to position zero - type "obj" - hit CTRL+SPACE Expected: At least be able to autocomplete symbols from the previous line. Actual: Renders a SPACE </code></pre> In its current form, it's pretty much a TEXTAREA with syntax highlighting. To me, that says they released this to the public <i>way</i> too early. I think I'll check back in next year.

tl;dr of 10 minutes video:<p>- All code uploaded to their orion servers<p>- Import of .zip files<p>- git commit and diff functionality<p>- Try your code with by running webserver username.orion.eclipse.org<p>- Syntax highlighting (at least for js)<p>- Use of JSLint for syntax navigation and error notification<p>- Keyboard bindings as you know them from desktop applications<p>- Handles huge files without any noticable delay (40000 lines+)<p>Oh and as I understood it, it is a beta and some functionality are not fully implemented, like the .git support.<p>Personally I believe some things are better of being a desktop application - and do not like the trend with _everything_ on the web, but the project itself is a cool idea and great implementation.

From the Eclipse wiki: "Orion's objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great care has been taken to provide a web experience for development."<p>So, to spare me finding headphones and watching 10 minutes of video, is this meant to be more than a syntax-highlighting text box without a right-click context menu? (FF 4.01)

Cloud9/Ace/SkyWriter/Whatever-it's-called-today seems like a much better implementation of this.

The idea is pretty interesting and I'm going to keep an eye on how this develops.<p>Moving an entire IDE online is a pretty huge task but there are some features that simply make more sense online. I personally would love to see some kind of active collaboration so that you can share code with someone who isn't in office with you. I'm thinking Google Docs style where it shows you where they are in the file and the changes they make as they make them.<p>The git support alone makes this a pretty useful tool for on the go development.

it's kinda neat..undo doesn't work (in chrome w/mac anyways). Can someone enlighten me with some practical purposes for these sorta things? My imagination isn't working.

Gah, looking at the sample code. Can't resize the text area(unless I missed something), having to scroll horizontally to read code is a pain in the ass. I'll take 80 character lines any day(I assume that don't do that in the java world?)

Is Orion a new e5? What happened with e4? What the rest of Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse Projects think about it?

It reminds me of Zope 2

What a crappy project, how about some better C++ support?!

The name OrionHub makes me wish that open-source companies were more litigious, just so that we could have some variety in naming.

Until they add Java support they shouldn't even be using the Eclipse name.<p>I know Eclipse supports other languages, but essentially Eclipse is the biggest Java IDE so announcing this web editor but avoiding Java support feels like they just picked the most easy thing to show off.<p>Syntax highlighting is easy. What I want is a Java editor with code completion, code folding and error highlighting/error stripe. Otherwise we might just use Emacs over NaCl.