[amasad]

I hope folks would forgive this plug but I think we can help: if you're looking for an alternative check out https://repl.it We have a lot of folks using it for online courses and YouTube tutorials.

We're committed to being open and available to anyone who wants to use the product. We're also very passionate about education and have a product specifically targeted at educators: https://repl.it/classrooms

We're currently not as feature complete IDE as C9 is but the aim is to get there without complicating the product too much. We want to keep it so that under 2 seconds anyone can spin up an environment. We also want to keep it simple and uncluttered. However, we want to expose a lot of the power that we already built the infrastructure for. Big updates to that end coming soon.

[AcerbicZero]

I was (and still am) a huge fan of repl.it, and I used it heavily while I was teaching myself Python/Ruby a few years ago. Being able to type code, in small chunks, and test anything that didn't work as expected is a massive help when picking up a new language, for me anyway.

I stopped using it when I switched jobs and our proxy was breaking connections to the site, but it looks like it has come a long way since then.