Yes, thanks Tyler for your detailed write up. It definitely helps us understand where you are coming from.
At the moment, I only have one question I guess. We we've been talking here and on the Twittersphere about the recently release Stack Overflow Developer Survey and its section on Development environments. For reference, the results are here:
We were actually quite pleased to see Eclipse still used by 23% of survey's respondents, ahead of IntelliJ though it's hard to tell once you factor in Android Studio. It was also interesting to note the popularity of text editors in this survey along with the top desktop IDEs. It appears from this survey that developers are still very focused, if not exclusively, on development on their desktops.
I was wondering, what factors you are seeing that will cause such a tectonic shift in developer behavior that they will start using web IDEs in the huge numbers you have mentioned. I understand the vision and the marketing, I'm just wondering how it will manifest itself on the ground.
Thanks!
Doug.