Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE

Direct URL: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/collide/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/collide/</a>

Bigger news?<p><i>After nearly 7 years, Google decided to shut down its Atlanta engineering efforts.</i><p>That's a relatively old shop to shut down. Anybody know how big it was?

<i>/me reads features...</i><p>Awesome!<p><i>/me reads Java 7 requirement...</i><p>Sadness.

Any demo sites, videos, or screen shots?

How does it compare to Cloud9 IDE or Beanstalk in terms of the collaboration functionality?<p><a href="http://c9.io" rel="nofollow">http://c9.io</a><p><a href="http://beanstalkapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://beanstalkapp.com</a>

I was really excited to look at the new collaborative IDE, unfortunately the requested link returned a 404 error. Bummer...

It uses Google Wave. Well I guess it's not totally dead.

Oh, they use vert.x, cool!

Temporary example, showing OpenStack Nova tree. <a href="http://collide.daviey.com/" rel="nofollow">http://collide.daviey.com/</a>

I'm pretty excited about the new wave of IDE's in the browser: Cloud9, Eclipse Orion, and Collide. Just having them available, with my last setup, from any computer with an internet connection and a browser makes my life easier. Collide looks like it's using one of the internet's big plusses: collaboration. Kudos and keep going. EDIT: grammar

Does this have the same mechanisms for dealing with multiple concurrent edits that Google Wave? (<a href="http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform" rel="nofollow">http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transfor...</a>)<p>OT: SLOCCount reported 61k lines of Java and 1k XML. That's quite a lot of code IMO.

Jaime Yap (donjaime_hn) wrote a Google+ post explaining more about the project: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107037260910017774154/posts/f2RvyNbk8uM" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/0/107037260910017774154/posts/f2Rv...</a>

At least it should allow one person selecting a block of text and make it also highlighted in the other one's window?

Seems cool, but isn't sharing a VNC with a real editor like emacs/vi better?

How is this IDE vs the other (few?) IDEs that can be used "in the cloud?"

Doesn't Google only open source projects when they don't want to spend any more time working on them?