I just added a comment elsewhere (if you can find it) explaining that in my opinion the premise of the article is flawed, and that a large part of the comments and discussion are highly confused and are mixing up a number of things ... the problem isn't with IDEs at all, the problem is about setting up and maintaining your development environment/runtimes. Whether the IDE runs in a browser or on the desktop or somewhere else is totally irrelevant!
I just added a comment elsewhere (if you can find it) explaining that in my opinion the premise of the article is flawed, and that a large part of the comments and discussion are highly confused and are mixing up a number of things ... the problem isn't with IDEs at all, the problem is about setting up and maintaining your development environment/runtimes. Whether the IDE runs in a browser or on the desktop or somewhere else is totally irrelevant!
haha "Teflon undies" I like it :-)