template-nix VS cloudmacs

Nix is <3. Here's a template where you can take it for a spin on Gitpod.

https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nix

Personally I run all my software via nix, in a monorepo with a layout similar to google3, that generates/serves docker images via https://github.com/google/nixery, supports x64/m1, local development, codespaces and gitpod.

👋Geoff here from Gitpod. Created something special for the OCaml community moments ago - https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-ocaml. If you prefer nix then adjust https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nix. Enjoy 🧡

Things to note: - This is a very self-hosted type of method. You can store your notes in the cloud of course, but there's no "online Emacs" (whelp, nevermind, I stand corrected). - This is a very text-based environment. There are images and whatnot, but Emacs is fundamentally a bunch of text. This is a powerful thing, don't think of it as a downside. Text is the universal interface. - This is going to be a learning experience, both about a new tool and about yourself. You should walk away from Emacs with philosophical questions and a desire to convert the nonbelievers. - You will never feel comfortable using a normal computer again once you experience the pure bliss of a computing environment made just for you. - Do youself a favor and start with David Wilson's Emacs From Scratch series. If you follow that series all the way through, and make your own choices instead of just copying him, you'll be hooked by the end of it. DO NOT try to use Emacs raw and uncustomized, and shame anyone who tells you that you should. - You should look into keybindings, ergonomics, and human physiology (especially about hands). Regular computer stuff with a regular keyboard is hell on your hands, and Emacs will make it worse if you let it force it's arcane keybinds on you. Just define your own keybinds that work for you. Bonus points if you end up with a layered split vertical ortholinear concave thumb-cluster keyboard (I aint there yet because money, but I will eventually build my own custom keyboard).

If the goal is to have org mode running in a browser (even without wasm), then you could look at something like this: https://beepb00p.xyz/cloudmacs.html

In that last point there is Cloudmacs, which essentially runs spacemacs I'm docker and accessible via ssh within a browser.

Just kidding, you could try Cloudmacs. No idea how well it works with newer Emacs.

Maybe https://github.com/karlicoss/cloudmacs is what you're looking for?

https://beepb00p.xyz/cloudmacs.html (Not tried myself)

Interesting side thought, there's also a Docker container for a browser-usable emacs that works by using gotty to render a tty (and the emacs running on it) in a webpage. So you could in theory have a container with both that and OCaml+opam, which would let you tuareg-mode, merlin, and the OCaml interactive mode within this browser-based emacs.

This reminds me of cloudmacs