Fabian Jakobs

Karlsruhe Germany

Lead Developer

Technology / Software / Internet

My name is Fabian Jakobs, I'm the creator of the ACE code editor and Lead developer at Cloud9 IDE. My passion is to push the boundaries of the web. Bringing new experiences and new types of applications to the web. At Cloud9 we are building a complete IDE running in the browser using nothing but JavaScript and HTML5. For a great IDE experience the code editor is a very critical component. Therefore one of my first tasks for Cloud9 was to build a HTML based code editor component which compares well with editors like Sublime Text or TextMate. The result was ACE which has become the most popular online code editor with more than 4000 "likes" on GitHub. I'm a JavaScript guy and I love to ...