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Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by Fatnino »

Svetlitski wrote: post #155
flappyeagle wrote: post #114

I want a token based keyboard with the following properties Language and syntax awareness. When I’m writing JavaScript - it should provide keys for ‘if’ ‘each’ ‘function’ etc. When I have unbalanced parens, braces etc, it should tell me how many levels deep I am and what context I’m in. Instead of me naming variables it should generate random names and let me declare with a single tap. Provide easy refactoring tools…

This reminds me of programming on a TI-84 calculator. You selected from a list of keywords (as opposed to having to type them out), and the language being TI-BASIC meant variable names were usually just one letter.

Variables were always one letter. You could however create a list with up to 100 entries and give it a custom name up to 5 letters long. This is in addition to the several (5?6?) default lists named L1 through L5or6.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by ezdub »

Excellent. Now we just need $8 Google cardboard with a strap and a bluetooth keyboard to work anywhere :)

Hey Repl.it — please make a 3D coding environment for cardboard mode. And maybe some head tracking for more screen estate. The future is here, time to distribute it.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by harperlee »

flappyeagle wrote: post #114

I want a token based keyboard with the following properties Language and syntax awareness. When I’m writing JavaScript - it should provide keys for ‘if’ ‘each’ ‘function’ etc. When I have unbalanced parens, braces etc, it should tell me how many levels deep I am and what context I’m in. Instead of me naming variables it should generate random names and let me declare with a single tap. Provide easy refactoring tools…

> When I have unbalanced parens, braces etc, it should tell me how many levels deep I am and what context I’m in.

Better yet: structural editing to avoid an unbalanced thing ever.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by ellis0n »

saagarjha wrote: post #192
ellis0n wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Further discussion is pointless. I gave enough facts... And all other algorithms are known. Usually technical people communicate and not brazenly copy other people's ideas, as happened 4k HN topic or rr debugger Amjad startup fact. Let me remind you that he presented himself as "an investor" and was not even interested in the most complex technology in the world, but preferred to simply make a clone I will remind you…

It’s not clear what your story has to do with anything?

Please focus and show to me, what do you not understand? Have you checked all my posts with the facts? Also, please explain if possible

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by ellis0n »

saagarjha wrote: post #193
aaronvg wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry but I think the features you listed as being stolen seem pretty generic. For example "mobile IDE (ipad pro with keyboard)" doesn't tell me what specific IDE features you'd implement. In this case, Replit made the "joystick" feature. Same with "team development and other features". Also it seems you're blaming Amjad for your project being delayed? Not sure how that is related.

And, to be fair, even UI features like the joystick aren’t that big of a feature. We’ve had a similar thing in our app for years, it’s cropped up in several others over time including here. In the long run nobody is using our app because we did a joystick thing before Replit did.

As I understand you mean a simple UI that is not a big deal. I implemented a joystick feature for a mobile game in one day with Animation CPU at 2014. The problem is make a copy whole startup project with multiple complex features with 'investor' playing in a game like 'your project is unclear'. Amjad spent 2 years for clone whole my project to replit

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by another_story »

Kuldr wrote: post #180
another_story wrote: post #115

As a teacher the basic Replit stuff is great, but their class management stuff is atrocious and unintuitive. For example, under one class I created 9 units with a number of challenges under each unit. You copy that to a new class (Team is what they call it) and all sections disappear). Then if you want to reorganize, even if there are sections, you have to drag and drop, scrolling up or down the page and repeating th…

As another teacher completely agree. I have managed to find a work around to the import/reorder problem. Replit organises by alphabetical order so we have simply numbered our challenges 01.01, 01.02, ..., 02.01, etc. Then on import they all live in the default section in order. We then only use the sections feature for projects/tests. Now Replit education is free I doubt they will be prioritising any fixes or qol imp…

Hah, yah, that was my exact solution as well. Great minds.

I've pushed my high schoolers towards VSCode after a stint with replit, and after a bit of grumbling they've come to see the benefit. I think the space is ripe for opportunity though. A stripped down and education focused version would be eat into replit's market share pretty quickly.

Re: Replit Mobile App

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Post by jlokier »

mradek wrote: post #17

On a related note, it would be cool if there was a "coding mode" mobile keyboard option. We have built-in keyboards for phone number and formatters for particular things. It would be cool to have a built-in coding keyboard that adapts to the language being written via plugins, etc.

On Android the Hacker's Keyboard does a respectable job for coding and command line. I use it on those rare occasions I need to use SSH from my Android phone.

It doesn't adapt to the language being written, that's an interesting idea.

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