Show HN: KISS IDE – A simple web based IDE

Show HN: KISS IDE – A simple web based IDE(github.com)

56 points by tcarey83 9 years ago | 21 comments

dorianm 9 years ago |

Reminds me of Geany, my go-to lightweight IDE before I switched to Sublime, then vim: https://www.geany.org

glup 9 years ago |

humorously, this makes the front page of HN the day I try out Eclipse Che, at the other end of the spectrum.

http://www.eclipse.org/che/

qhoc 9 years ago | |

Have you tried the on premise IDE https://www.eclipse.org/che/docs/setup/getting-started/ ? It's kinda cool but I don't see any pricing. Awesome if it is free!

gravypod 9 years ago | | |

It is free but the IDE isn't exactly finished yet.

was_boring 9 years ago | |

I've been playing around with koding, which I believe offers a similar toolset.

That said, their documentation is lacking, and broken links abound. I hope they get their act together soon, or they are doomed as the on boarding and troubleshooting experience is terrible.

nkkollaw 9 years ago | |

That looks a lot better than the regular Eclipse IDE.

What's the story..?

amelius 9 years ago |

The ultimate "KISS" IDE for me is vim :)

But nice try!

thealistra 9 years ago | |

how is vim simple?

sametmax 9 years ago | | |

Vim is simple. It's just no easy.

ferbivore 9 years ago | | |

Well, the competition is Emacs.

shakna 9 years ago |

If it wasn't so reliant on Apache or PHP I'd be more willing to try it out.

Unfortunately, I've experienced nearly every nightmare with the two, thanks to work, bad code, and absent documentation.

I don't want them on my machine.

Any plans for a self-contained bundle?

tcarey83 9 years ago | |

OP here. Only the backend is written in PHP (it is very simple PHP) and that may change (probably Python, maybe Node.js). It's only a small part of the code, most of the code is javascript that runs in the browser. Initially, I am working on Apache and PHP because a lot of what I work on is Wordpress, but Nginx certainly supports PHP as well. Note that it doesn't require your code to be written in PHP, only that your server has the correct modules installed. If you use phpmyadmin you have already pretty much installed everything needed.

shakna 9 years ago | | |

I wasn't meaning to criticise the use of PHP at all.

But creating some sort of bundle with a portable PHP and server, just a zipped folder or something, would hugely reduce the barrier to entry, and reassure people like me who shy away from part of the tech stack.

stephenr 9 years ago | |

It sounds like it's written in PHP, so dependency isn't likely to go away, but it specifically says it should work fine with a server other than apache.

As for your specific issues, I find it hard to follow your complaint when it comes to docs. Both php and apache httpd projects have extensive, easy to follow documentation.

shakna 9 years ago | | |

I realise PHP can't go away, hence "self-contained bundle".

The docs I referenced are not the official documentation, but rather mind-bendingly bad systems I've had to deal with that were undocumented.

PHP isn't necessarily bad. But bad experiences mean I hate it.

Hide the PHP in a nice self-contained system, and I won't care, plus it'll simplify install/setup.