Hi Alan, I'm super excited to tell you that this new version has fixed at least 50% of your issues, and we are tackling those others very very soon. We support PHP now, both in syntax highlighting as well as running. With this release we included one private project for Free accounts! You can always reach us via twitter or support@c9.io. Cheers, Ruben
I'm also having problems, but in Chrome on Arch. It hangs for a while telling me my git repository is being cloned, eventually telling me that [repository name] workspace already exists. Upon choosing a new name and continuing, it just keeps hanging indefinitely.
This release is a complete rework of the version that was online two weeks ago. Check the download links at the middle of http://c9.io/site/features/ to download a local verson that can sync with online.
This seems to be a Node 0.6 issue. We're almost done adapting Cloud9IDE to run on Node 0.6. For the time being please use the node version that is packaged with Cloud9IDE. (Run the shell script bin/cloud9.sh)
Great, thanks! I just signed up and tried it out. You guys did an awesome job! The gitHub checkout was flawless and the editor is really nice.
There is, however, one "problem" that prevents me from switching to c9 and trying it out for a few days: as far as I can tell c9 allows us to edit files on your server and then push the updated project back into the git repository. For a web dev like me this would mean a commit after every edit and then I'd have to manually pull the changes from GitHub onto my dev server every single time.
I don't know if I'm the exception here, but I pretty much need my editor to save files directly onto my server (preferably via SFTP). The git integration thing is still great, it's just not compatible with my workflow to do a commit and manual pull for every edit. I don't spend hours making changes and then test them all at once - instead I make small changes, save, and then run tests immediately.