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Add to SafariWhen comparing Orion vs Dirigible, the Slant community recommends Dirigible for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?” Dirigible is ranked 29th while Orion is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Dirigible is:
Working on a live system shortens development turn-around cycles and eliminates the need of complex CI steps during development.
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Pros
Pro Plug-ins including Pixlr image editor
Pro Built for front-end development
Orion was developed specifically for front-end development, making it a strong option for front-end developers thanks to features like syntax validation with ESLint and HTML content assist.
Pro Eclipse-like UI
Orion is developed by Eclipse and shares a lot in common with the Eclipse IDE UI.
Pro In-system programming development model
Working on a live system shortens development turn-around cycles and eliminates the need of complex CI steps during development.
Pro Template based generation of user interfaces
Pattern-based user interface generation using Bootstrap/AngularJS or OpenUI5
Pro Template based generation of CRUD services
RESTful services based on database tables
Pro Short turnaround time
Pro Built-in Flows & Jobs
Simple workflows descriptors in JSON format for declarative modeling of application processes
Pro Database Modeling
Simple database table layout descriptors in JSON format
Pro Easy to use
Cons
Con No runtime environment
Does mostly do file editing, but without good project support, web terminal, build/runtime environment.
Con JavaScript only
Orion currently only supports JavaScript.
Con Poor documentation
Other than the getting started guide on their Github page, their only documentation is in PDF.
