Eating Our Own Dog Food: Behind the Scenes at Cloud9

I&#x27;ve noticed a huge improvement over time and am really impressed with how well it works now. I forget when I first used c9, but it was more of a novelty than a productive tool. I&#x27;m also really enjoying the way the terminal works, feels integrated.<p>I&#x27;ve never tried the nested stuff, or would even think of it, but it sounds pretty cool. Hope to see more improvements and features in the future.

I only ever used Cloud9 to try to help a few friends get into programming (which worked wonders since we could all work on the same repos together [my way of teaching them git before any programming was stupid and got dangerously close to turning them off to programming] and I could correct them with commit messages as well as inline comments) and didn&#x27;t know that you could actually get a preview after running your program[0]. I&#x27;m pretty sure this is going to be all I use for the next few weeks until classes start back up.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vDvYAvo.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vDvYAvo.png</a>

I&#x27;ve used Cloud9 mostly as a way to collaborate with interactively with novice developers. I think it is a solid tool; in many businesses however using an externally cloud hosted environment for source code isn&#x27;t an option. Have you ever considered a licensing package for customer based installs, similar to how Atlassian licenses Stash as an alternative to BitBucket?

I&#x27;ve been watching too much dota. I just assumed this was about Cloud9.gg , the eSports team haha

I hope I am not being rude, but could someone compare Cloud9 with nitrous.io? I am a light user of pro nitrous.io (a few hours per week) and like always having Haskell, Clojure, my most recent project repos cloned, etc.<p>Is it worth checking out Cloud9? Perhaps not a fair question, but I am interested in hearing from people who have used both. I enjoyed Google&#x27;s internal browser based IDE Cider, and think that web based development has a strong future.

ive moved my entire development environment to cloud9 on a chromebook and i couldnt be happier with the performance and lack of overhead needed on my part. thanks!

Your IDE looks darker than the default flat white theme? I like the flat theme a lot but can&#x27;t stand the brightness, I hope you find some time to make a dark version of the flat theme! That said, yours is by far the best &quot;web IDE&quot; I&#x27;ve tried so far, congrats! =)

Why is that background image 4000 x 3000?!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;Chatuchak_Weekend_Market_P1100759.JPG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;Chatuchak_Weekend_...</a>

400,000 lines of original source code sound really impressive! are you sure about that? Does sloccount say that or some wc -l ?

Great article, it&#x27;s good to hear about IDE companies dogfooding and using that to improve their product.<p>I don&#x27;t want to call you out but in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;recursion.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;c9.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;content&#x2F;images&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;recursion.png</a> you&#x27;re really only running C9 in C9 - the rest have the same URL.