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Only a few months ago Amazon bought Cloud9, arguably the best online IDE. [1] Perhaps they might beat Google to the punch?

[1]: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/07/14/amazon-buys-cloud9-aws/

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Doesn't Google already have a web based, but internal only, IDE? I don't know if that'd be easy to make external, but my understanding is that they've got a lot of internal users on it.

Yeah, and Cider was getting surprisingly good at the point I left Google (I was initially a skeptic). But so much of what made it good came from its tight integration with other internal tooling. I'd be surprised if it's ever externalized in a form that captures most of that value.

yup, this was what I was referring to in my other comment.

a cloud based IDE is certainly lighter than VS. the fact that it's accessible anywhere is a huge plus.

I would still like to see a desktop version of C9, sort of like Atom & Microsoft Visual Code.

It's going to be hard to justify using Google Cloud after this when I know I'm most likely to ditch Azure in the process as well.

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