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jducoeurIntriguing early-stage story for programmers: Ars is reporting on Bespin, a new all-online IDE. It's explicitly just starting out, and has a variety of issues still, but the high concept is quite cool: a programming environment that is accessible from everywhere and intensely customizable, designed from the ground up for online use.
I'd bet that it'll take them a year to get this ready for serious use, but once they do it could become yet another real threat to the established players. In particular, it's a much more natural mode for truly collaborative work, which in some environments may make a lot of sense: combine a webcam-based chat with a shared programming desktop, and you potentially have a fine environment for pair programming, code reviews, and lots more.
My guess is that it'll be some years before this hits the enterprise, but it's enough of a natural for open-source that it'll probably start getting picked up by some projects even while it's still kind of new and squishy. So keep an eye on this one...
I'd bet that it'll take them a year to get this ready for serious use, but once they do it could become yet another real threat to the established players. In particular, it's a much more natural mode for truly collaborative work, which in some environments may make a lot of sense: combine a webcam-based chat with a shared programming desktop, and you potentially have a fine environment for pair programming, code reviews, and lots more.
My guess is that it'll be some years before this hits the enterprise, but it's enough of a natural for open-source that it'll probably start getting picked up by some projects even while it's still kind of new and squishy. So keep an eye on this one...