Although I can understand your point of view, you must understand that creating a web based editor or IDE ( like Thimble ) has a ton of advantages. One being it helps people learn to code.<p>It helps them in this because they don&#x27;t have to install and editor, they don&#x27;t have to configure it and best of all the don&#x27;t have to install and configure their development environment. All a user has to do is sign in, pick a language and start coding, it literally takes less then a minute.<p>Also the fact that they can collaborate in real time and get help from a friend, is not a small feature to have for them.<p>Although this may not sound appealing to you...their are many people where these features will make or break their initiative to start coding.<p>Disclaimer: I am the founder of the Cloud IDE - Codeanywhere.com