Well, how else will they be able to steal your IP and passwords? How else will you be able to go get coffee every time the net's down? How else will you be able to spend years reimplementing elisp in JavaScript, poorly? How else will you get to experience the instability of a web browser while editing code?
Truly, a cloud editor is an advancement on the bad old days when we had editors which ran quickly, locally, with decades of extensions and kept our information safe.
Well, how else will they be able to steal your IP and passwords? How else will you be able to go get coffee every time the net's down? How else will you be able to spend years reimplementing elisp in JavaScript, poorly? How else will you get to experience the instability of a web browser while editing code?
Truly, a cloud editor is an advancement on the bad old days when we had editors which ran quickly, locally, with decades of extensions and kept our information safe.