Will cloud programming ever be taken off?

Question

It was just an opportunity to try out a cloud programming environment that will allow you to develop .net applications in a browser ( http://coderun.com/ide/ ), I found this quite interesting, since I was able to develop an ASP.NET mockup site on an iPad.

With javascript engines in browsers faster and faster, cheap server infrastructure for compilation; will the cloud become the IDE platform of the future?

Answer 1

Like any other technological solution, there are many pros and cons, but let me give you an elephant in the room, and that is trust.

Regardless of how much you guarantee your customers that your data is safe and secure, there will always be a significant proportion of companies (and government agencies) that (for many reasons, including legal ones) will not transfer their data to another organization. Someday.

Answer 2

Mozilla Bespin did this some time ago, and although this is an interesting idea, I do not see sufficient significant advantages until I point to this model and say "this is where we will be in 15 years." But with the connection, it basically becomes “Always Everywhere” for every device you can develop, the idea of ​​a built-in browser-based IDE is not so far-fetched. Since Google can create an entirely browser-based OS, we can now develop in it, right?

Answer 3

I made a big miscalculation in the early 90s, when I said that the Internet would never take off, because browsers at that time were not convenient for the consumer. Microsoft came out with IE and pretty much changed the game in one night. I will no longer be mistaken in connection with a major transition.

It’s just a matter of time before people use MobileMe’s computing infrastructure and companies transfer expensive IT infrastructure to third parties. My only realistic cavaet about cloud computing has always been that users and corporations do not like the idea of ​​personal or valuable information located outdoors. Slowly, but is it true to trust social networks or rely on SaaS, everything is aimed at trusting the cloud: the main advantage is the cost. Once this trust is fully established, it will be difficult to stop something.

Answer 4

He will always use it. I doubt that many people would prefer to use this over a normal (as in local) IDE. But there are times when you do not have access to the IDE, for example, for the iPad. Perhaps this could happen in the mobile world. But I think that the percentage of programmers who want to program away from the desktop and have a mobile device that has Internet access but is unable to work with the local IDE is quite low. However, these devices are removed, and most manufacturers do not allow applications such as compilers. Therefore, I can imagine that this "cloud programming" is removed in situations where there is no alternative.

I didn’t look at what it’s capable of, but it can be useful for pair programming over the Internet, in which case I’m sure that many lovers will find it useful.

In general, I do not think that this product will replace so many current IDEs, but this can lead to the possibility of programming in new places.

Answer 5

Suppose that "cloud computing" is PaaS and / or IaaS ... "Hosting systems, applications, services and storage", then we were "Programming in the cloud" through IDE, CDE, etc. from mainframes. My teams were programmed from half the world in the cloud through remote sessions running on mainframes, server clusters, dedicated servers and virtual machines, team servers, shared project servers, etc. For decades; although most of these hosts were in Private Clouds.

The evolution has happened and is happening since your link and other links show that IDE, CDE, etc. available today in a public cloud. Evolution will also solve the problems of trust.

By their very nature and sensitivity, some things should and should always be “dark” ... protected in areas where there is no communication opportunity other than internal ... because they are now in dark, private clouds.

New "cloud forms", unknown in nature, and the name of us today will develop and appear from the fog of the cloud in other places. Perhaps one day, Cloud Computing will turn into something we can call Universe Computing or ??? Computing. What will be "Universe Computing" or "??? Computing"?