Cloud9 IDE is aiming to be the IDE for Javascript developers. We have all experienced the Eclipse variants and other Java or C++ IDE’s for which webdevelopment and javascript was an afterthought. Extending these applications or customizing them to our needs was done in either Java or C++ and generally very difficult. We are developing applications in javascript to run online for a purpose, why shouldn’t you do your application development online too?

For these reasons we have started Cloud9 IDE as an online platform for Javascript development, and all the code is opensource and free to adapt and use.

The technologies to make Cloud9 possible have been under development for many years (HTML5 browsers, ajax.org, nodejs, many others), and we are very excited to share it with you at this early stage. However we are not there yet, and we need your help and feedback!
Top Priorities

* Easy hackability for Javascript developers
* At least as good as existing IDE’s and text editors with help from the latest browsers
* Local and remote file and repository integration
* Debugging support for Chrome / NodeJS
* Test and deploy your code in the cloud