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Python Fiddle, an IDE That Runs In Your Browser

Posted by timothy on from the virtual-guido dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The site Python Fiddle, like the similarly named jsFiddle, allows users to post code and share it with others. However, unlike jsfiddle, pythonfiddle brings a major advancement with the Python language, which fully runs in the browser."

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  1. ln -sf browser operating_system by smoothnorman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and in the end, (which, of course, is a "new beginning") what was the browser will want to be able to run a new and shiny alternative browser...

  2. It would be a lot easier... by drb226 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...to just build the Python interpreter right into browsers, like JavaScript.

  3. Re:Dear Developers.. by hairyfeet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But everyone has to jump in on the latest fad, don't you know that? I remember the "it'll all be thin clients all the way down!" fad, the grid computing fad, and now the "all you need is a browser and the magical perfect cloud!" fad.

    The fads they come, the fads they go, but there is a damned good reason why desktops have been virtually unchanged in the past twenty years design wise, and that is because they WORK. Having lots of processing power, memory, and storage, all at the user's fingertips? it is nice, it makes things faster and works even without the magic cloud. But everyone needs to jump on the fads or else they wouldn't be fads now would they?

    But hey, if making an IDE run really REALLY slow by sticking it in a browser gives them a happy? More power to them I say. Some make models, some play guitar, if jamming an IDE in a browser is what they like to blow their weekends on different strokes.

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  4. Re:Dear Developers.. by FlyingGuy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dear Anonymous COWARD

    If software developers actually wrote and deployed their applications correctly a lot of whats broken in Windows would actually be fixed!

    This is not to say that Windows does not have problems, it has TONS of them, but many many of them would be resolved if the idiots actually wrote applications that did not:

    • Put their data files in "/program files".
    • Fail to set the correct rights to the registry keys they create on install.
    • Require "power user" or above permissions.
    • Scatter their damn DLL's all over the fucking hard drive, then rely on the OS to track them down and do the loading for them instead of keeping them with their main executable and loading and unloading them explicitly with their program.
    • Put all sorts of shit in the system or system32 directory.

    That is but a tiny sample of the brain dead shit that application programmers do which in turn causes all sorts of chaos in windows. YES Microsfot did build a whole shit load of supidity into Windows but the people who write software for it are even worse since they simple never do it correctly.

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  5. Re:It makes Eclipse with PyDev feel responsive. by FrootLoops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might have picked a better criticism of Visual Studio than "it takes up too much hard disk space." That's a pretty weak criticism in today's world of very cheap, very large drives.[on this scale].