[kuzux]

have you ever heard of https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/ ?

[fierarul]

Actually just tested Bespin today and it needs a lot more work before it becomes an IDE.

Right now it's just a browser-based text editor with some syntax highlighting for Javascript and HTML (XML doesn't work btw).

It needs a few more languages, code completion, code folding just to be a good editor.

Being an IDE implies also talking to some tools to compile stuff, deploy, debug, etc.

Let's say I want to code a Java application for Google AppEngine. Could I use Bespin (or anything else) to do this ? Not right now, and not soon.

[Nogwater]

Isn't Bespin more of an editor than a full IDE? I haven't used it in a while. Does it have build and debug functions now? Don't get me wrong, I think we'll get there eventually, I just doubt it'll be this year.