Comment by daniel-thompson

> the ethics of trying to open source a similar project to your old employers product is morally ambiguous at best

I don't think it's bad at all, considering replit is itself built on open-source software, and the CEO is a loud champion of open-source software, and the intern's project only explores one relatively small aspect (number of languages supported) of the problem space while purposefully ignoring all the other stuff necessary to build a competing product