Ask HN: Cloud 9 closing for good. Any alternatives

11 points·Lordarminius··13 comments

As some feared and predicted, Amazon is closing C9 in December.I learned to code on C( reading Michael Hartl's rail book. Can anyone recommend any alternative cloud based coding platforms ?

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Microsoft is launching [Visual Studio Code Online](https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-launches-visual-...) soon and [Stackblitz](https://stackblitz.com/) has an online code editor based on Visual Studio Code as well.

You can also run Code online on your own server: https://github.com/cdr/code-server

I think just unmigrated legacy accounts are going away, but you move it over the the same cloud IDE setup just pegged to a regular aws account https://c9.io/announcement

CodeSandbox is pretty nice! https://codesandbox.io

I also like Glitch a lot https://glitch.com

<sarcasm>I'm still fearing that I won't be able to open Emacs tomorrow morning </sarcasm>

Seriously though, your Editor is one of the most basic tools is as important as the chair you sit, or the keys to your house... you shouldn't depend on somebody else's computer to access edit your code.

Cloud9 is not shutting down. You just have to use AWS version of it.

You can use code-server[1] to get a vscode web ide

[1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server

This is so great, I have completely switched from self hosted c9 to coder

When was this announced? I seem to have completely missed it. Can someone link a previous discussion on HN about it?

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Amazon's the new Google.

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