I really really want this product to work. I can see the potential/benefit in it. But every time I try it I'm left disappointed. I know it's probably me doing something stupid, but here goes my experience this time.
Oh cloud9 I really like this idea, lets see if it's improved since last time I looked -> click
I can sign in via Bitbucket cool I'll do that.
Okay that was dumb of me, my Bitbucket repositories are all private so I can't use cloud9 for this. I'll import my github projects instead.
Dang, Github is already registered to another account and I can't change it.
No problem, I'll de-active Bitbucket and delete this account, then sign in with the old account I created.
Doh, I can't remember my password, I'll reset it. Weird a new password is sent back to me in plain text? That doesn't fill me with confidence.
I'm in, the dashboard says I've only got one project in my Github repository, that's odd? Never mind, one project will do for testing.
Open project, click index.php, hmmm no syntax highlighting.
Never mind I'll just click on view then syntax and choose PHP. Nope that didn't work, not sure why, okay maybe it's because it's a PHP project and this is a Javascript IDE. I'll have a little play around and see what else is new.
Zend mode that seems interesting I'll click that. Ahh okay, that looks pretty. Right, now where have all my options gone, bugger. How do I exit out of zend mode? I can't remember the keyboard short cut and there's no hint. Okay never mind I'll just exit the IDE and login again.
Right back to the dashboard. Oh sweet, looks like my other Github projects have appeared. I'll try a Javascript based project.
Okay so start editing -> click on Javascript file -> no syntax highlighting -> click syntax button -> choose javascript, no syntax highlighting sigh...
Maybe code completion will work, at least that's fun to try. I type "this.". No code completion, right well that's enough play time quit.
I don't doubt that all this stuff works, but for me in the 5 / 10 minutes I played around with this I've not managed to get the IDE to function how I expect it to. And it's the same thing every time. I really hope this post is taken positively as constructive feedback because I can see great potential for the product. I'd love some kind of automatic ajaxy getting started tour once I've logged in.
Hi Alan, I'm super excited to tell you that this new version has fixed at least 50% of your issues, and we are tackling those others very very soon. We support PHP now, both in syntax highlighting as well as running. With this release we included one private project for Free accounts! You can always reach us via twitter or support@c9.io. Cheers, Ruben
I'm also having problems, but in Chrome on Arch. It hangs for a while telling me my git repository is being cloned, eventually telling me that [repository name] workspace already exists. Upon choosing a new name and continuing, it just keeps hanging indefinitely.
I'm happy to report a different experience. I've had major issues every time I tried it before, but this is the first time it is actually usable. And it works well!
I installed it on my own server. Editing local files. As always, it was a major pain to install (instructions fail for latest stable node, had to install v6 for it to work). However, after installation, it worked like a champ.
Some of the fancier features are still buggy, but the basics are solid.
Great job guys! Seriously thinking about using this to write code that puts food on the table.
Oh cloud9 I really like this idea, lets see if it's improved since last time I looked -> click
I can sign in via Bitbucket cool I'll do that.
Okay that was dumb of me, my Bitbucket repositories are all private so I can't use cloud9 for this. I'll import my github projects instead.
Dang, Github is already registered to another account and I can't change it.
No problem, I'll de-active Bitbucket and delete this account, then sign in with the old account I created.
Doh, I can't remember my password, I'll reset it. Weird a new password is sent back to me in plain text? That doesn't fill me with confidence.
I'm in, the dashboard says I've only got one project in my Github repository, that's odd? Never mind, one project will do for testing.
Open project, click index.php, hmmm no syntax highlighting.
Never mind I'll just click on view then syntax and choose PHP. Nope that didn't work, not sure why, okay maybe it's because it's a PHP project and this is a Javascript IDE. I'll have a little play around and see what else is new.
Zend mode that seems interesting I'll click that. Ahh okay, that looks pretty. Right, now where have all my options gone, bugger. How do I exit out of zend mode? I can't remember the keyboard short cut and there's no hint. Okay never mind I'll just exit the IDE and login again.
Right back to the dashboard. Oh sweet, looks like my other Github projects have appeared. I'll try a Javascript based project.
Okay so start editing -> click on Javascript file -> no syntax highlighting -> click syntax button -> choose javascript, no syntax highlighting sigh... Maybe code completion will work, at least that's fun to try. I type "this.". No code completion, right well that's enough play time quit.
I don't doubt that all this stuff works, but for me in the 5 / 10 minutes I played around with this I've not managed to get the IDE to function how I expect it to. And it's the same thing every time. I really hope this post is taken positively as constructive feedback because I can see great potential for the product. I'd love some kind of automatic ajaxy getting started tour once I've logged in.