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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 by amasad »

eslaught wrote: post #110
amasad wrote: 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…

Did you move away from Emscripten? I was trying to use repl.it offline recently, and it didn't seem to work. Using Emscripten was one of the coolest parts of the original, and it would be sad if you had to drop that.

Yes, had to move even before started building the more advanced features like hosting. There were some bugs with the JS number type causing weird issues with emscripten. It's been a while so I don't remember the details.

Additionally, and perhaps counter-intuitively the server-side solution was better for folks in areas with bad internet and computers. Downloading 10mb of JavaScript is a lot for some people and sometimes their computers would run out of memory parsing the JS.

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

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Post by dflock »

johnzeringue wrote: post #107
amasad wrote: 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…

Love the clean, minimal look of your website. Definitely going to keep the Raleway font in mind for future projects. I noticed two small issues. First, if you enable gzip on static assets, it will help images load faster. Second, Mason's picture is 2MB, bigger than everything else combined!

Gzipping a jpeg isn't going to save you any bytes.

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

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Post by jventura »

asicsp wrote: post #102
amasad wrote: 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…

looks great, especially classroom feature.. congrats :)

I'm a university professor, and there's no way i can afford personally 1$/month per student. And definitely the school won't allow me the budget. "Use the lab computers", they'll say.. So I don't know how realistically someone can use repl.it for teaching, at least in public/higher education.

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

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Post by p1esk »

lucasverra wrote: post #59
mshenfield wrote: post #28

Github seems like they're gearing up to offer a similar service [0]. Cloud9, and notably Glitch [1] offer similar and well executed services. [0] https://github.com/atom/xray#web-compatibility [1] http://glitch.com/

Just for the sake of listing, what "alternatives" are available today ? I can think of 1. Codepen (pure HTML+CSS+JS+frameworks) 2. jsfiddle.net/ (pure HTML+CSS+JS+frameworks) 3. Cloud 9 (full ide?) 4. https://anvil.works/ (pure Python) 5. CaptainDuckDuck ? 6. Repl.It 7. https://glitch.com/ 8. Runkit.io (pure node.js) Other ?

Is there a cloud (browser) based IDE that allows to run code on a server I specify?

Right now I'm using the remote deployment feature of PyCharm to run tensorflow code on different remote GPU servers, but I'd like to uncouple the IDE from my local machine.

Ideally, I'd like Github to offer such service, so that I can edit the code in my repo right on github.com, specify a remote server to run it on, and seamlessly transfer/run it on that server with a click of a button.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

EgoIncarnate wrote: post #13

I may be misreading this, so please correct me. It seems as if this project has gone from open source to a closed source service ? [ https://github.com/replit/jsrepl ] Are Facebook, Google, and all the other name brands you are using to promote your product using your proprietary service, or the older open source stuff? If you have gone closed source, you should only be using names that are using the proprietary prod…

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

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Post by baldfat »

amasad wrote: 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 have been teaching a few kids programming but were using Racket (I personally think this is the best first language for someone to really dive into) Any chance of Racket support?

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

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Post by notroot »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #21
amasad wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I could see how this could be misleading. So the open-source tech you linked to is outdated -- we moved everything from the client-side to our own infra (because we wanted to do things like open a port). We intend to open source the backend infra too but it takes time for the protocol to stabilize. The "open-source" section on the homepage is intended to show that some open-source projects (for example Jest https…

Just to be clear, Google using the Classroom product doesn't implicitly grant you permission to use their logo on your marketing materials. Did you obtain permission from the listed entities to use their logos?

Agreed. I expressed some concerns about the now dead "trusted by" section as well https://twitter.com/stephenrigsby/status/973640170648956929 .

Also why is your comment kinda-greyed out?

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

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Post by notroot »

purple-again wrote: post #75
amasad wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I probably did, it's been a year though so I'm not entirely sure. For what it's worth this really is not needed and I actually hate the "look at all the logos" sections on websites so I just pushed a fix to remove it.

It’s hard to make a man happy without making another one sad. I hate that it’s true, but look at all the logos you recognize using this product is the only way I can ever get my completely non tech literate boss to sign off on any new tech. :(

Probably a super unpopular opinion here on hn but your boss `aint completely wrong. It's not a bad strategy when considering starting a business relationship with someone or something you don't know much about.
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