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Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream

Posted by timothy on from the hope-your-connection-is-reliable dept.

snitch writes "Last week Mozilla released Bespin, their web-based framework for code editing, and only a few days later Boris Bokowski and Simon Kaegi implemented an Eclipse-based Bespin server using headless Eclipse plug-ins. With the presentation of the web-based Eclipse workbench at EclipseCon and the release of products like Heroku, a web-based IDE and hosting environment for RoR apps, it seems that web-based IDEs might soon become mainstream."

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  1. Re:Potential for Netbooks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Setup ssh on your beefy box. Install eclipse. run xhost +

    Now on your netbook ssh -x
    login
    eclipse&

    It should popup on you netbook but be running on your beefy computer.