It would be really awesome! It would be really cool to be able to “push” the code with Ctrl+S or whatever rather than having it trying to re-run the code on every key press. It seems (correct me if I’m wrong, @Tim), that the glitch devs are fairly set on not allowing us to disable the auto save which is really annoying when I’m trying not to spam an external API or mess up something that, when half-written, could have some annoying side effects (e.g. creating a bunch of mongodb users as I type like “m”, “my”, “myu”, “myus”, “myuser”, “myuserna”, “myusername” that I then have to go tidy up).
My current work-around is to put a “#” in the code somewhere so I get a syntax error, and then I take it away when I’m ready to start testing.
There are obviously a bunch of other benefits you’d get with local editors too - definitely looking forward to this!