<story><title>Show HN: Codebox - Open-source cloud and desktop IDE</title><url>https://github.com/FriendCode/codebox</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjungwir</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d love to see someone build an IDE that lives locally but syncs up to a cloud service so I can pull everything back down to a different machine and work there. I think you could actually do this with Docker, where your &amp;quot;IDE&amp;quot; would not be an editor, but a virtual system with the code, the database, a web server, the right version of Python&amp;#x2F;Ruby&amp;#x2F;foo, dependencies, etc., and you could use whatever editor you wanted. As you worked, the app would use Docker to save the state of the world and push it up to the server. It seems like this would get the benefits of cloud IDEs but still provide the low latency and flexibility of working locally. I don&amp;#x27;t have the time or expertise to build it, but I hope someone will!</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Codebox - Open-source cloud and desktop IDE</title><url>https://github.com/FriendCode/codebox</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jalan</author><text>I sometimes wonder, can cloud IDE&amp;#x27;s will really be able to replace traditional code editors like Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs.&lt;p&gt;I really like the idea of cloud IDE&amp;#x27;s, but practically it&amp;#x27;s difficult to bring the entire development environment on cloud&amp;#x2F;browser, and even more difficult when switching from Vim.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, I really appreciate the efforts you are putting in this project. Congrats guys&amp;#x2F;gals, job well done.</text></comment>