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Awesome job on the terminal-app-as-webpage concept. I like how it also fits in with your meta "IDE to learn programming" concept. It made slightly more sense t
by mindgam3 8y ago
Awesome job on the terminal-app-as-webpage concept. I like how it also fits in with your meta "IDE to learn programming" concept.
It made slightly more sense to me when I saw it on context at this URL: https://repl.it/site/jobs https://repl.it/site/jobs
- amasad 8y agoYeah, the idea is that almost everyone's first computer program is a terminal program along the lines of: name = input('What is your name?\n') print('Hi, %s.' % name) (https://name.amasad.repl.run/ https://name.amasad.repl.run/) Every programmer has experienced an intense sense of accomplishment when someone uses their program. The problem is that, until today, there was no easy way to share text and terminal-based programs. The bar to sharing apps shouldn't be GUI as it remains really really hard.
- mindgam3 8y agoIt's really awesome. The first time I saw a web interface like this was on the Mr Robot website (www.whoismrrobot.com). Ironically, it looks like they've updated the site since then with a GUI. But originally it included a DOS-like terminal. It was such a fun page. Really good UX in the sense that it's playful and instantly recognizable with a nostalgic feel to anyone who's ever tried to hack software. I ended up creating my own JS-based console-based interface for a side project, not released yet. It's kind of genius that you guys have an even simpler way for people to launch these.
- amasad 8y agoThank you! On Mr. Robot we have a few references to it on the website including this very post. See the last video on the page, zoom in on the top-left corner ;)