Coding in the clouds. Now that sounds like fun!
Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment that seems very promising. All serious developers should check this one out!
Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.
During my daily feed reading I came across a new code editor with some very promising features and a refreshing take on authoring code. As a professional developer I can tell you that choosing a favorite code editor is a daunting task. One editor will do a few things you just love but fall short in other areas. Another editor will provide the power and stability you desire but leave a lot to be desired in UI and usability. At first look, new code editor Bespin seems to provide stability, speed, power and clean presentation coupled with a forward thinking ideology about development in the clouds. What do I mean by “development in the clouds”? I’m talking about using software as a service. Rather than the software being local to your machine, the software is accessed as a service over the Internet making it available to any machine with an Internet connection. Imagine having access to your development environment from many machines without having to install the appropriate software on each one. Bespin takes a stab at providing you with a code editor that is readily available to you as you move from one machine to the next without skipping a beat.
Bespin is currently in beta mode and I’ve only given it a quick run, but I like what’s going on so far and it’s an open source application so we can all make it better. Follow the link below to give it a try yourself and let me know what you think? Once I’ve had a chance to work with this new application in depth I will write another post with more details.