[shepard]

I also don't want to sound arrogant, but I would like to address this point:

> Text editor (vim/emacs/sublime/Atom, etc.): For the Go newbie is too complex

Text editor may be hard(?) to setup for a go newbie, although I do not personally agree with this statement, but at least local shell + text editor + command line compiler is a well known and understood stack. A newbie having a problem with it can always ask for help - coworkers, friends, online, etc., and solution is always within her control.

Replacing this stack with a web-based one will change a set of known problems into a set of unknown problems, outside of anybody's control, except for the b3log and their team. And their software is fresh and untested, and surely contains a lot of bugs, as any new code.

I'm not sure that sounds like a good value proposition - not to me.

[kybernetikos]

On the other hand, it's likely (if their system is at least as good as cloud9) that if someone has a problem, they can provide a link that will literally show it exactly as they see it, and it'll almost certainly remove one of the most common problems of getting started which is weird environmental problems on the users computer. When cloud9 first came out, for a long time it was by far the best way of developing node.js code on windows.

I still have weird environment and cygwin/msys issues on windows when trying to set up Idris or rust or even some node packages that insist on compiling native code on install.