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by kybernetikos 4253 days ago
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.