Want to say goodbye to your localhost? Could a $200 Chromebook could be a great development machine with one of these Cloud-based development environments? Here are a few services I plan to evaluate. Have a recommendation? Add to this list!
Here's a great blog article on why cloud development might be the future of development.
Codenvy is cloud development. Developers can use Codenvy's #IDE and automation to edit, build and debug their code from anywhere. It supports #Java, #C++, #Android, #Javascript, #Go, #Scala and any other language that runs on #Linux. Based on open #Eclipse projects, Codenvy is offered as SaaS, on-premises and white label.
Here's a one-minute overview of codenvy
Koding is a cloud-based development environment complete with free VMs, IDE & sudo enabled terminal where you can learn #Ruby, #Go, #Java, #NodeJS, #PHP, #C, #C++, #Perl, #Python, etc.
A quick overview of koding:
Cloud9 combines a powerful online code editor with a full Ubuntu workspace in the cloud. Cloud9 supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for #PHP, #Ruby, #Python, #JavaScript, #Go, and more.
Here's the overview video:
Codebox IDE is an open source cloud-based development environment platform, supports #Ruby, #Python, #NodeJS, #PHP and more stacks.
A great intro screencast:
