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Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

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Post by hayaodeh2 »

bwood wrote: post #14

I just signed up because I wanted to be able to clone a git repo into a repl and pair program as needed. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to do this, I figured it would be the obvious feature especially with the GitHub login option. Apparently it is do-able with a little effort, but man I'd love for this to be a standard feature. "Hey Jim, I just pushed to the funky-broken branch, can you take a look and help m…

It's coming very soon we promise. Gitgub integration is planned and will be in progress very soon. To keep an eye on that feature request click on this link https://replit.canny.io/feedback/p/github-integration

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#52

Post by hayaodeh2 »

jakeinspace wrote: post #20

This seems like it might be useful for hackathons, especially when working with team members who aren't well-versed in git or virtualenv.

Absolutely, it can be useful for online hackathons and irl hackathons. Do you usually contribute to hackathons?

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#53

Post by hayaodeh2 »

abarrettwilsdon wrote: post #5

Very cool to see this launch! I beta tested Multiplayer a few short weeks ago, and it looks like it's improved quite a bit since then

Thanks for your support. Yes, we like to test and improve our features, and we try our best to listen to our user's needs. Please keep us posted with your feedback and if you have thoughts or ideas to improve Multiplayer.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#54

Post by ehsankia »

kovek wrote: post #38

Awesome! A few times I've had to code together with my girlfriend and went for repl.it as a reflex, checked if it supported this feature or not because it seemed like it could! (Great (free??) product!) We would then use cloud9, but now it seems like that won't be necessary!!

Just as early as a year ago there was almost no good solution, but that's been changing very quickly.

I really like Colab[0] by Google for a web based one, and if you have VSCode installed, their Live Share extension is pretty solid [1]

[0] https://colab.research.google.com

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv...

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

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Post by hayaodeh2 »

Myrmornis wrote: post #32

I wonder whether there's ever been much momentum within google to add programming language modes to google docs. It must have been suggested plenty of times internally. I mean, I hope not, for the sake of smaller companies like repl.it.

We're really good friends with Google and they already use Repl.it. Thanks for your kind words.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#56

Post by hayaodeh2 »

decebalus1 wrote: post #15

Cool. Most likely it will only be used for technical interviews.

interviews are one of the use cases. But there are so many other use cases, especially in Repl.it. The blog https://repl.it/site/blog/multi covered a lot of the use case that we know about for sure. And I'm confident there will other use cases that we'll learn about soon.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#57

Post by SquishyPanda23 »

Heh, I don't know how this keeps happening, but I literally just had this idea today. I almost sent it to a friend who's looking for project ideas, but I'm super glad repl.it is building it. This looks great.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#58

Post by sytse »

I wonder what technology Repl.it is using for the multiplayer. VS code has a live coding plugin, is this what is used?

Disclosure: I’m the CEO of GitLab and we’re looking at live coding ourselves as well.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#59

Post by rlyshw »

sytse wrote: post #58

I wonder what technology Repl.it is using for the multiplayer. VS code has a live coding plugin, is this what is used? Disclosure: I’m the CEO of GitLab and we’re looking at live coding ourselves as well.

It looks like Repl.it is in this thread, they might provide an exact answer.

But, if they don’t, here’s my take. To me it seems like this is something that would be built in-house with the ability to leverage repl.it’s existing application infrastructure. I’d imagine this would simplify the development compared to the vscode plugin. (stand-alone desktop app)

Also, long-time gitlab-CE user here. I’d love to see multiplayer as a feature.

Re: Repl.it Multiplayer

#60

Post by joowani »

This is cool. By the way I just tried it and ran a simple infinite loop (in Python) and the whole page goes unresponsive and I don't seem to have a way to terminate the process?
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