Ludei, makers of the premier HTML5 mobile game development platform, announced today that the first of many cloud platform components -- the Ludei Cloud Compiler -- is open to public beta and that ...

He figures it’s possible to rewrite the IDE as HTML5, but since that’s a pretty large mountain to climb, he started by building a browser-based AVR compiler.

Computers don't understand English or even programming languages. What's needed is translation software, and it comes in different forms: compilers, interpreters and bytecode.