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Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

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post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

I've been using repl.it for a couple of (or more, I suppose) years now, and it's been very helpful to have a simple, reliable REPL to jump into, test things out, and to share code. I've turned students and colleagues to it, too. I'm excited to see where you're taking it. I hope it continues to load and run quickly. Just wanted to say thanks for building it, and keep up the great work!

Yes we aim for 2 seconds loadtime irrespective of the environment (we maybe a bit of the mark in some cases but not too far off) and part of the post was about reassuring folks like you that although it will increase in power it doesn't mean that it will be slower or more complex.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#42
post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Any plans to support Scala?

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#43
post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Could you add an option to copy/clone/use a github public repo? I would love to "mount" the github repo for tflearn and run the examples. Ideally, I would love a curated list of public repos per language that lets me explore and learn.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#44
post #42
post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Any plans to support Scala?

yes, there is. in the matter of fact, Scala is one of the top languages requested on Repl.it. We have an open issue for languages requests on our feedback channel here is a link for it https://replit.canny.io/languages-requests

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#45
post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

Could you add an option to copy/clone/use a github public repo? I would love to "mount" the github repo for tflearn and run the examples. Ideally, I would love a curated list of public repos per language that lets me explore and learn.

On the roadmap. Specifically the "explore" section is coming very soon.

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#46
I did last year's Advent of Code[1] using a different programming language for each day of the month.

Repl.It was easily the best tool out there for quickly prototyping solutions and testing them out for the languages that I don't use often and don't have a dedicated environment set up for.

As part of that month, I started tracking each of the online REPLs I ended up using and threw them all into a gist[2]. Turns out you can do a lot of programming from the browser these days.

[1]: http://adventofcode.com/2017

[2]: https://gist.github.com/danprince/0f4a200319c95209c9c028b296...

Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#47
post #11

Hey HN, author and Repl.it cofounder here. It's been a long journey to get to what we're calling 1.0 and HN have been there on every step of the way. We started working on what became Repl.it back in school where we were tired of setting up the development environment on every machine we wanted to code on. It was at a time where everything was moving to the cloud and we thought that, naturally, coding would follow su…

I've been using repl.it for a couple of (or more, I suppose) years now, and it's been very helpful to have a simple, reliable REPL to jump into, test things out, and to share code. I've turned students and colleagues to it, too. I'm excited to see where you're taking it. I hope it continues to load and run quickly. Just wanted to say thanks for building it, and keep up the great work!

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Re: Repl.it 1.0: IDE that Grows from Playgrounds to Fullstack Apps

#49
post #20

is it possible to export the final repl as a docker image and run it locally ?

Yes, eventually. As I said in a sibling thread, we intend to open-source our protocol/images so that we can do things like, use your own editor/local setup with Repl.it. Or eject completely from the platform.

this is killer!

Goodbye Jupyter notebooks pretty much

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