The open web is evolving in to the best platform for application development. Bespin is an initiative by mozilla labs to create a web based code editor which aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.
Mozilla labs has taken the pain to survey programmers spread across various development platforms who are developing for open web to come up with a proposed set of features.
Here is what bespin focuses on
Ease of Use — the editor experience should not be intimidating and should facilitate quickly getting straight into the code
Real-time Collaboration — sharing live coding sessions with colleagues should be easy and collaboratively coding with one or more partners should Just Work
Integrated Command-Line — tools like vi and Emacs have demonstrated the power of integrating command-lines into editors; Bespin hase done it, too
Extensible and Self-Hosted — the interface and capabilities of Bespin should is highly extensible and easily accessible to users through Ubiquity-like commands or via the plug-in API
Wicked Fast — the editor is just a toy unless it stays smooth and responsive editing files of very large sizes, bespin aims in being really fast.
Accessible from Anywhere — the code editor should work from anywhere, and from any device, using any modern standards-compliant browser
So if you are a developer, go on get involved!
