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I (barely) evaluated some cloud IDEs few weeks back and I felt Cloud9 and Nitrous.IO were far superior to Codio or other IDEs. So, I'm wondering, what makes you say Codio is the most powerful? In any case, I still don't see enough value in cloud based IDEs to give up the speed that I get from developing locally.

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I don't know if this is cultural, but I don't understand this kind of marketing. It's like those signs in some restaurants, e.g. "the best cappuccino in town" or "the world's best burger"...

It makes me instantly skeptical :)

Try it and see ;)

When I looked at various options to support a Real World OCaml IDE recently, I picked Codio because it didn't require any write access to my GitHub account. Cloud9 wanted access to all my repositories, including the private ones, just to sign in.

My notes here: http://anil.recoil.org/2014/03/26/codio-now-has-opam-support...

Never tried any of them. Could you please explain how Cloud9 and Nitrous.IO were superior? For the speed concerns, doesn't your browser being a thin client with a cache solve those problems?

Here is one reason Nitrous.IO is superior. I could actually run the php file that was created automatically on the box. I cannot do the same on codio.

Another reason is that Nitrous.IO has a desktop client that uses unison to keep files in sync. This means I develop locally using my favourite IDE and I get to preview it instantly on my nitrous.io box, I say instantly but I'm sure there is some latency, but I'm lucky enough to have an internet connection where CTRL-S, ALT-TAB, CTRL-F5 results in my newest code being ready without having to wait.

Sorry but I was hopeful that Codio could live up to it's claim, but the fact I can't even run their default PHP file is pretty sad.

There is a good reason for the PHP not working out of the box. With Nitrous you have to choose the type of Box you want - in this case, it would be PHP. But with Codio, a Box is a Box with everything you need. Which means you are not restricted as to what you can use it for.

Check out the docs on using PHP in Codio https://codio.com/s/docs/specifics/php/, but it's a simple matter of `parts install php5 php5-apache2 && parts start apache`, and you're up and running.

It's an important difference, I think. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

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