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by amasad 8y ago
Thank 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 ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
Yes! We're happy to fund some of that work if someone is interested in working on it email me amjad@repl.it
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by amasad 8y ago
PHP is getting better soon!
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by amasad 8y ago
Seems to be having trouble with adblock. Try it in incognito or something. We're looking into it now
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by amasad 8y ago
Agreed. It's also a tough problem. Before starting Repl.it, I worked on a JavaScript packager at Facebook (which became the Metro Packager). With Repl.it we're working on what we're calling a "universal package manager&q
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by amasad 8y ago
That should exist too. Right now doing it in the cloud allows instant sharing and hosting but I hope we can get to a point where we can build something like what you suggest.
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by amasad 8y ago
We think repl.it is the C64 of the cloud era: >Cloud-computing is one of the most significant paradigm shifts in our industry, yet it remains commandable only by relatively few professionals. It's similar to when, prior to microcomp
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by amasad 8y ago
Honestly, we think of it as an A. We're planning to get (back) to profitability on it ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
I believe the example he gave about "doing a naughty thing" was referencing our idea of terminal-apps-as-webpages: https://repl.it/jobs for an example
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by amasad 8y ago
Oh most people will google "repl.it ruby" and get to that directly. We also just discussed this and we're adding a language selector on the homepage.
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by amasad 8y ago
Yeah, 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.ru
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by amasad 8y ago
Just a fun meta note: I initially authored this blogpost and collaborated on it with my colleagues using repl.it. It's also hosted under https://repl.vc and you can get to the source this way https://repl.vc&#x2F
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by amasad 8y ago
All of those companies charged for their product and had enterprise plans ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
Awesome! I'm not sure if you saw but we now have a visual package manager that automatically generates requirements.txt for you: https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Announcing-Universal-Pack...
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by amasad 8y ago
Oh cool -- I'll take a look. Storage is definitely our biggest challenge going forward.
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by amasad 8y ago
Indeed. Online coding is a fun space to be in right now (although we've been around for a while so it's cool to see it start to take off). However, a few things that make Repl.it unique: 1. A REPL-first environment. We believe whe
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by amasad 8y ago
Good question. Repl.it is all about instantness, you should be able to get a REPL really fast[0]. If you want to host a webserver you should be able to do it quickly from the same interface[1], if you want to share your work then that shoul
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by amasad 8y ago
Thanks, we wanted to make sure our /jobs presented our key values, as some would say ;) ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
The 90's were great for independent software vendors and we'd want to bring that aspect of it back so it works out perfectly ;)
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by amasad 8y ago
Hmm, weird. What browser/OS? Also any errors in the JS console?
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by amasad 8y ago
Definitely on the roadmap. We're working on making it easy to add languages by creating common abstractions. As a start we just open-sourced Prybar: "a universal interpreter front-end" https://github.com/repli
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by amasad 8y ago
xD link: https://repl.it/site/jobs it's built with repl.it too: https://repl.it/@util/jerbs
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by amasad 8y ago
oops, thanks!
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by amasad 8y ago
Towards the end of the post there's a bit about our business. As we've noticed that more people want to use repl.it for more things: from building websites and apps (250,000 in 6 months) to data science[0] and education, with a gr
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by amasad 8y ago
awesome!
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by amasad 8y ago
Thanks, Max! Likewise on Spectrum, I'm seeing it everywhere these days.
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by amasad 8y ago
Thank you!
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by amasad 8y ago
Tongue-in-cheek :-P but I do think that Viaweb is relevant here: their original business model (it was called Webgen) was to let people host their sites with them. They were also the first to figure out "cloud" where they ran thei
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by amasad 8y ago
Oh that's a cool thought thank you!
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by amasad 8y ago
We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting). You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the la

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