Cloud based ides make me feel uncomfortable. Do companies really want their developers dependent on a web app being online? Isn’t sublime so much faster than a web app? Are there IP issues to worry about from the “we can change our TOS at any time with no notice” clauses on these sites? Won’t the data be really tempting to sell one day? Maybe I’m just not the target audience for it
Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
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Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#32Cloud based ides make me feel uncomfortable. Do companies really want their developers dependent on a web app being online? Isn’t sublime so much faster than a web app? Are there IP issues to worry about from the “we can change our TOS at any time with no notice” clauses on these sites? Won’t the data be really tempting to sell one day? Maybe I’m just not the target audience for it
Or, to play a recent meme, “no coding today... because us-east-1 is down.”
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#33Does anyone know if there is an opensource self-hosted equivalent?
I'd love to install it on my NAS for the kids to play/experiment with..
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe not by a vscode plugin, but possibly by vscode itself. One thing I've noticed about web IDEs I've used in the past, be it Nitrous, Cloud9 or others is that they start with the idea of web IDE and then they make it a good IDE. VScode was first a good editor that everyone enjoys using and then it started moving to web. If at some point vscode becomes a fully integrated web IDE like repl.it or cloud9 I think it wi…
That would be my worry. VSCode for all its faults works well and is lightweight. Make VSCode tightly integrate with github, where you never even have the code locally, and can build and test via the IDE nicely... amazing, never even have to setup the environment or pull the code down. I am temped to apply for their SRE role, but I have a fairly cushy role as is, so probably not.
That’s exactly what GitHub Codespaces provides: https://github.com/features/codespaces.
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#35I teach an AP CS A class at a Bay Area school. In previous years, the class would have students write and run Java on their own computers. This year, given the remote nature, the class has completely transitioned to using Repl.it. We publish assignments and projects on it (and have also tried syncing with Github classroom to give more in-depth comments for each commit), and also demonstrate new topics by pulling up a…
Speaking of text-based Among Us, checkout among-sus.
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#36One thing that always perplexed me about repl.it is the actual domain. .IT is (was?) supposed to be reserved to businesses and individuals based in Italy, but Repl.it is definitely not (all their job ads are for SF). Did TLD rules in Italy change, or are they dodging them with some fictitious shell company?
A good chunk of country specific TLDs are no longer specific to countries, similar to how .org/.net moved on from their original uses.
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#37This level of user engagement is fantastic but does it translate to actual revenue growth? Or is this only a hockey stick of expenses that will eventually run the company dry?
Careful, this graph does not show user engagement, only registered users over time. Maybe 90% of users create an account for a one-timer then forget about the service.
Re: Paul Graham on Replit's Growth
#38One thing that always perplexed me about repl.it is the actual domain. .IT is (was?) supposed to be reserved to businesses and individuals based in Italy, but Repl.it is definitely not (all their job ads are for SF). Did TLD rules in Italy change, or are they dodging them with some fictitious shell company?
A good chunk of country specific TLDs are no longer specific to countries, similar to how .org/.net moved on from their original uses.
I know, I was just surprised because .it used to be fairly strict (I’m Italian but I’ve lived abroad for a long time, so it was annoying for me). It looks like they’ve since relaxed the rules so that anybody in EU or with Italian citizenship can register, which is a weird halfway measure but I guess it wouldn’t feel like Italy without some meaningless bureaucracy.