Comment by toomuchtodo

5 years ago

Are there any open source competitors to Replit that are seeking patrons? I have been encouraged by the rapid fire Show HNs of open source first startups [1], and this space seems ripe for such open tooling.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

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toomuchtodo

charlesdaniels 5 years ago

Try It Online[0] seems to offer a very similar service - if you don't care about the collaboration aspect of it. It claims to be self-hostable[1].

glot.io[2] is another, which seems to fit more in the realm of "pastebin with runnable snippets".

As I understand it, a big sell of repl.it is that they have some kind of collaborative editing support, which none of the alternatives I was able to find in a few minutes of digging have. Google Colab has this, but only support Python (AFAIK) and is not open source.

0 - https://tio.run/#

1 - https://github.com/TryItOnline/tiosetup

2 - https://glot.io/

toomuchtodo 5 years ago

Thank you!

ipodopt 5 years ago

https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share

https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/develop-cloud/overview

neweggrma 5 years ago

Eclipse Theia: https://theia-ide.org/

It's an open source project bringing the VS Code user interface to the browser. It supports a large number of VS Code extensions.

It is by-far the stand-out in this arena, and yet seems to be sadly very unknown. VS Code Liveshare and friends are all proprietary junk, to be polite.

GitPod.io is a directly usable end-user product.

Theia is used by Google, ARM, Arduino, IBM, Huawei, Ericsson, Red Hat, and more. It's seriously good stuff.