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Comment by JoelSutherland | Hacker News Reader

To say that this project is awesome is a HUGE understatement. We are currently using it in our upcoming CMS (http://www.gethifi.com) as an in-browser text editor. It looks and behaves great: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gethifi/4952045778/

They are currently trying to get it to work on the iPad/mobile safari. That could quickly make the iPad a reasonable mobile development environment.

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Agreed, it's huge. And there is more to come due to the flexible plug-in model.

BTW. The mockup of your CMS looks impressive.

Thanks! It's actually not a mockup -- that is running live as is everything in that Flickr account.

We're actually in our last stage of heavy development. We've got ~35 sites running on the system now and will soon be able to open it up.

Open source or something else?

As long as the editor doesn't actually have code completion and code folding it's not an IDE. I was very enthusiastic when I first heard about Bespin but after installing the thing locally I saw it's basically just a syntax highlight layer.

I would love to see a true browser-based IDE but Bespin isn't that just yet. I see how it works for a CMS but it won't replace NetBeans or Eclipse very soon.

I don't there is a reason to loose enthusiasm. I've talked with the bespin team and they know they have along way to go. Just because it's not feature complete doesn't mean it sucks.

It seems like they have built a strong base. Some cool projects have adopted it. And it seems like in a year or two it might even have a really strong feature set. So I'm excited even if I don't use it much currently.

yay liquid.

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