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Cloud9 IDE vs SourceTree: What are the differences?
What is Cloud9 IDE? Your development environment, in the cloud. Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.
What is SourceTree? A free Git GUI client for Windows and macOS. Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.
Cloud9 IDE can be classified as a tool in the "Cloud IDE" category, while SourceTree is grouped under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".
Some of the features offered by Cloud9 IDE are:
- Real-time collaboration and chat
- Connect via SSH and FTP
- Code Completion (suggestions)
On the other hand, SourceTree provides the following key features:
- Full-powered DVCS
- Create, clone, commit, push, pull, merge, and more are all just a click away.
- Review your outgoing and incoming changesets, cherry-pick between branches, patch handling, rebase, stash, shelve, and much more.
"Easy to use", "Free" and "Nice UI" are the key factors why developers consider Cloud9 IDE; whereas "Visual history and branch view", "Beautiful UI" and "Easy repository browsing" are the primary reasons why SourceTree is favored.
9GAG, Typeform, and Zillow are some of the popular companies that use SourceTree, whereas Cloud9 IDE is used by LinkedIn, Heroku, and Salesforce. SourceTree has a broader approval, being mentioned in 618 company stacks & 414 developers stacks; compared to Cloud9 IDE, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 40 developer stacks.
I explored many Git Desktop tools for the Mac and my final decision was to use Fork. What I love about for that it contains three features, I like about a Git Client tool.
It allows * to handle day to day git operations (least important for me as I am cli junkie) * it helps to investigate the history * most important of all, it has a repo manager which many other tools are missing.
Pros of AWS Cloud9
- Easy to use108
- Free102
- Nice UI76
- Terminal access to vm instead of simulation65
- New full ubuntu machines58
- Easy dev environment49
- Ssh access to your own machine44
- Real-time with other people43
- Free prototype hosting43
- Collaboration32
- Open Source10
- Great syntax highlighting6
- Works great5
- Nice ide4
- Better IDE than the others4
- Extremely easy setup4
- Great interface, download or upload file is nice.4
- Its easy to share code3
- You can run your project easier3
- Open-source friendly3
- Good documentation2
- Bitbucket integration1
- Versatile and robust1
- Need a credit card to get access1
- Starts a VM1
- Easy to use, seem fast, friendly ui1
- Good0
Pros of SourceTree
- Visual history and branch view205
- Beautiful UI164
- Easy repository browsing134
- Gitflow support87
- Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines75
- Great branch visualization22
- Ui/ux and user-friendliness18
- Best Git Client UI/Features8
- Search commit messages7
- Available for Windows and macOS5
- Log only one file1
- Search file content1
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Cons of AWS Cloud9
- Not free6
Cons of SourceTree
- Crashes often12
- So many bugs8
- Fetching is slow sometimes7
- No dark theme (Windows)5
- Extremely slow5
- Very unstable5
- Can't select text in diff (windows)4
- Freezes quite frequently3
- Can't scale window from top corners3
- UI blinking2
- Windows version worse than mac version2
- Installs to AppData folder (windows)2
- Diff makes tab indentation look like spaces2
- Windows and Mac versions are very different2
- Diff appears as if space indented even if its tabs2
- Doesn't have an option for git init2
- Useless for merge conflict resolution2
- Doesn't differentiate submodules from parent repos2
- Requires bitbucket account2
- Generally hard to like1
- No reflog support1
- Bases binary check on filesize1
- Can't add remotes by right clicking remotes (windows)1
