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by TylerJewell 1943 days ago
A number of interesting points that are thought provoking, but also a bit of flame bait about cloud IDEs "dying off". As founder of Codenvy, happy to say that Eclipse Che is an active and growing open source community and after our happy acquisition by Red Hat they sell it as OpenShift CodeReady Workspaces.

Cloud IDEs provide value for specific portions of the market: 1. Training 2. Remote contractors in secure environments 3. Support 4. Classrooms 5. Vendors who want embedded dev envs in other products 6. Open source clones / snippet evaluations

Codenvy was strong in the embedded dev envs for other products. When you look at the various vendors that have emerged like Coder, Repl.IT, among others, they have a tendency to specialize in one of these areas.

That is quite different from the first generation cloud IDEs which tried to compete with classic desktop IDEs.