Re: Online Lua IDE - is it a good idea?

[Alek Paunov <alex@...>]

On 04.02.2012 19:08, steve donovan wrote:
> It would definitely be a 'try before you buy' option, but it still
> seems limited in what it could be allowed to do, since the Lua would
> run on the server?

Unfortunately, yes ... Multimedia, embedded development, non-web GUI 
development - significant part of Lua domain would be impossible or 
non-sense for remote testing/development ...

But otherwise, maybe there are potential "try and stay" user group 
(especially among users of some OSes ;-)).

> What _would_ be interesting is to use the Cloud9 machinery in a
> browser with a _local_ luvit/etc back-end. That's a good way to get a
> cross-platform IDE.

+1. Actually, besides WebDAV and SocketIO providers, server side part of 
Cloud9 is the relatively small part of the code. IMO, also very well 
designed and readable [1] - "working prototype" level rewriting seems 
like a one week fun for experienced Lua hacker [after 
determining/compatibility ensuring of the two base providers of course, 
BTW, C9 uses directly libxml2 binding for their DAV implementation].

Really serious work will be the integration of language support ... 
(which is client side for JS, supported by customized uglifyjs parser 
and treehunger [2][3] module by Zef Hemmel - their language guy).

Thanks for the comments,
Alek

[1] https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/blob/master/server/cloud9/index.js
[2] https://github.com/ajaxorg/treehugger
[3] http://cloud9ide.posterous.com/toward-better-code-editing