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by fierarul 5859 days ago
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.