> As Peter mentioned, the browser-based IDE is Step 1 and there is a long
> road ahead of us. Power-users might not find the browser based IDE suitable
> for them, but that's fine because we don't expect them to switch over to a
> completely new system right away. But if we get new developers who are new
> to programming (or just a new language/framework) on action.io, then our
> hope is that they will see action.io as the de-facto way to work.
> (Similar to how Heroku has become the de-facto way to deploy for a
> generation of Rails/Ruby programmers.)

> As we develop better tools (like the dropbox functionality Peter
> mentioned), more and more established programmers would also move to action.

> Once things stabilize, we will personally be developing action.io on
> action.io, so the better tools probably come faster than you think :)

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Sau Sheong Chang <saushe...@gmail.com>wrote:

>> The developers like Arun or AJ will give you the correct answer. For me,
>> having access to the actual machine might not necessarily be the best
>> experience. I haven't encountered anything like the RStudio Server with
>> Ruby, but if this is what action.io can provide, I'll be totally bought
>> in. The RStudio Server browser-based editor hands on beat the RStudio
>> desktop and also any R editor I've used so far. It's based on ACE, but
>> extended the functionality tremendously.

>> On Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:52:34 UTC+8, Matthew Jacobs wrote:

>>> I must say I don't quite understand the thinking behind the
>>> implementation.

>>> Why put all the interaction inside the browser?

>>> If they've created me a virtual machine on EC2,
>>> why not let me just ssh to it in my terminal?

>>> Could mount the remote file system and use my own text editor
>>> rather than trying to recreate all this functionality inside the browser.

>>> On 21 June 2012 14:13, JasonOng <velve...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> Having helped setup dev env across my designer and frontend developer's
>>>> machines for consistency, I know exactly the pain points that
>>>> https://www.action.io/ is solving! What do you guys think?

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