Online Lua IDE - is it a good idea?

[Alek Paunov <alex@...>]

Hi List,

C9 [1] based, but Lua/Luvit centric online IDE service?

Would such a service be valuable for the Lua community, especially the 
module authors?

As most of the List probably knows, the company behind the amazing C9 
project runs JS/Node.js centric IDE service at c9.io, which is 
implemented as integration of Github IDE sources with (closed source) 
infrastructure components.

IMHO, some potential benefits would be:
 * more easy start for beginners
   * feature for choosing per-installed module-set profiles
   * option to use/test with different Lua engines/Luvit/Tir
 * Lua centric code search (across the projects in service)
 * more appealing lua.org/demo replacement

Of course such a big project will bring bunch of challenges - reliable 
hosting; per session containers (LXC or something); implementation of V8 
debugging protocol (which C9 uses for interactive debugging); etc. May 
be recent Koneki [2] bits would be of great help for Lua support in C9.

Kind regards,
Alek

[1] https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9
    High-quality in-browser IDE written in JS
    (including node.js server side).
[2] http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt
[3] http://repl.it