Cloud9 IDE

Not to be confused with Cloud9.

Cloud9 IDE

Developer(s)	Amazon Web Services[1]
Written in	JavaScript
Platform	Web
Type	IDE
License	v3 - Freeware, Non-commercial License[2] v2 - GNU GPL v3[3]
Website	c9.io

Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go.

It is written almost entirely in JavaScript, and uses Node.js on the back-end. The editor component uses Ace.

Cloud9 was acquired by Amazon in July 2016^[4] and became a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

On July 25, 2024, Amazon announced they had no plans to introduce new features to Cloud9, and new AWS accounts would no longer have access to Cloud9.^[5]

Features

Some of the features of an older version included automatic code completion for snippets and identifiers, parenthesis and bracket matching, a debugger, and a gutter where line numbers and errors or warnings would be displayed.

Cloud9 IDE also offered syntax highlighting for various languages, such as C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.

Particularly for JavaScript, it offered real-time language analysis, code reformatting, and refactoring facilities.

It was also extensible and customizable, allowing users to change themes, plugins, and key-bindings to make their preferred setup.

As an online IDE, it allowed simultaneous editing from multiple users by offering multiple cursors, and could support the creation of private and public projects. Users were also able to drag-and-drop files into projects and use tabs to manage multiple files. Projects could also be integration with Mercurial and Git repositories, as well as collaboration platforms like GitHub and Bitbucket.

Other features:

• Built-in terminal, with npm and basic Unix commands
• Built in Image Editor
• Support for the following code repositories:
  • FTP servers
• Support for deployment to:
  • Heroku
  • Joyent
  • Microsoft Azure^[6]
  • Google App Engine^[7]
  • SFTP/FTP^[8]

About

Founded in 2010, and based in San Francisco and Amsterdam, Cloud9 IDE was a privately held company. Cloud9 IDE raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software.^[9]

On July 14, 2016, Cloud9 announced that it had been acquired by Amazon.com.^[4]

Usage

Cloud9 is the native IDE for the BeagleBone Black single-board computer, which is primarily programmed in an extension of node.js called Bonescript.

See also

• Online integrated development environment

References

1. "AWS Cloud9". Amazon Web Services. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
2. "Cloud9 Software Development Kit Non-commercial License Agreement". Cloud9. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
3. "LICENSE". Ajax.org. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
4. "Great News!". c9.io. Archived from the original on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
5. "How to migrate from AWS Cloud9 to AWS IDE Toolkits or AWS Cloudshell | AWS DevOps Blog". aws.amazon.com. 2024-07-25. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
6. Windows Azure on Cloud9 Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine. C9.io. Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
7. Deploy to Google App Engine with Cloud9 and git Archived 2013-08-18 at the Wayback Machine. C9.io (2013-07-22). Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
8. Deploy to (S)FTP. C9.io. Retrieved on 2014-05-29.
9. Development As A Service Platform Cloud9 Raises $5.5M From Accel And Atlassian Software. TechCrunch (2011-06-21). Retrieved on 2014-05-29.