Hi Aaron from FriendCode speaking (Codebox author),

The IDE itself isn't tied to specific VMs, it can run on your own server, your own desktop/laptop or our cloud.

We provide stacks for our cloud solution https://www.codebox.io/.

We provide stacks and VMs for all common languages and frameworks (PHP, Java, Dart, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, C/C++, Lua) as of right now.

The community can also contribute new stacks providing support for other languages.

Hope this helps :)

Oh, that's pretty interesting. Going to try this out - maybe this will be the first usable C++ IDE under Linux for me :)

Oh, and Rust support would be awesome. But I guess that's too early.

/edit: I like that it runs cmatrix in my browser: http://i.imgur.com/ZDiJ5Tw.png ;)

I've played with Rust a bit as well (with Mozilla's servo engine) and it's pretty cool.

I don't think it's an overly common request, but I could definitely add a Rust stack (we already have a Go one).

cmatrix :)

Any plans for supporting LXC or similar container solutions. They're much cheaper on the server side if you want to host a solution like this.

A lot of things are being improved as we speak. We've got a Desktop bundled IDE in the works (Linux/Mac) and I've been working on some more advanced completion and language integration for C/C++, Java and .Net.

So expect this to evolve quickly over the next few weeks. And obviously now that it's open source anyone can help improve the project :)

It lets me create boxes with PHP, Java, Dart, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, C/C++ and Lua.