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by lewisl9029 3859 days ago
I like the idea of a cloud-backed IDE that has an Offline/Cache mode, but is it even possible to provide the non-editor part of the dev environment (things like the terminal and all of the associated state in the container) while offline when they live on the server? That non-editor part of the dev environment is really the main appeal of a cloud-backed IDE for me.

Also, I have yet to find a cloud IDE that has proper support for building iOS apps. Sure you can delegate the builds to some external build service, but sometimes you do need the flexibility of a local build environment for advanced debugging and working around certain issues.

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Good point...I don't think its feasible currently at all to have the non-editor parts work with the remote dev enviroment. There are things we can do but this is still in the early stages so we will have to wait and see on that one :)