Squad is a beautiful text editor for the Web with a great future (hopefully)

Squad (no connection to us) is an interesting collaborative text editor for coders. There are several things I like about it, and several things I don't. Let me count them off real quick:

I like:

• The general look and feel. Stylish!
• Real-time collaboration a-la Etherpad, but with proper syntax highlighting for JavaScript, HTML, and a bunch of other languages.
• The product has Pro versions, so hopefully it's making some money and will stick around for a while.
• The name, of course!

I don't like:

• The fact that there is no Word Wrap.
• That it's pretty slow with collaborative real-time editing.
• No Ruby syntax highlighting!
• No auto-completion.
• Banners for the Free version are huge, and very little screen space is left.
• Free version is extremely limited.

Bottom line: Squad has some great potential, and maybe the paid version is awesome. The free version doesn't quite make the cut, but with a few minor changes it could be a huge hit for collaborative development. [Oh, what happened to Google Wave... -Ed]

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