# Is the IDE Really Going Away? **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer Programs\ **Tags:** developers\ **Created:** [April 28, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-the-ide-really-going-away/225320 "2021-04-28T22:45:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![JDRoberts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jdroberts/32/56577_2.png) [@JDRoberts](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JDRoberts)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-the-ide-really-going-away/225320/3 "2021-04-28T22:59:34Z")
We will get some tools, but smartthings has made it clear that they do not intend to continue hosting other people’s custom code in their cloud forever. They consider it to be a large source of the instability over the last couple of years. We don’t yet know how they are going to handle hub connected devices, like zigbee and zwave. But for everything else, you can do pretty much whatever you want to, but you will connect to smartthings through the published API And you will host your own code to do so. Or you will be able to use the new rules API, which is a lot like webcore and much more advanced than what is in the basic app features. Official announcement: > [@Announcement | Changes to our Legacy SmartThings Platform](https://community.smartthings.com/t/announcement-changes-to-our-legacy-smartthings-platform/197958): > > Changes to the Legacy SmartThings Platform The explosive growth of our community and platform over the past few years has been an amazing experience for all of us at SmartThings. We have you to thank for building, innovating and growing with us as we push the envelope to what is possible in the connected home. Today, we wanted to let you know about the next evolution in our journey. We are making some important shifts in our strategy to best position our platform for the future and investing more deeply in improving the stability and security of our platform. With these changes, we will empower a broad ecosystem of developers to integrate and innovate with SmartThings using technologies of their choice. Over the course of the next several months, we plan to focus on the development of a … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-the-ide-really-going-away/225320)._