Comment by PhineasRex
5 years ago
This explains a lot of why he's so threatened by this random POC. He's projecting onto the author the exact thing that he did.
5 years ago
This explains a lot of why he's so threatened by this random POC. He's projecting onto the author the exact thing that he did.
I mean... of course it is.
Someone could (and likely is) building a better Repl.it with Nix and Theia. It's fucking flabbergasting to me that everyone in this thread acts like Repl.it is some magical product.
And that's not even accounting for the half-dozen other production-quality VS-Code-in-browser projects.
Sorry, it's just not a unique space. Not surprising at an that an egostistic founder isn't handling it well.
Indeed, there are a lot of options out there https://github.com/styfle/awesome-online-ide
Even neglecting Godbolt, Cppreference, and Coliru.
Godbolt is Compiler Explorer, mainly to look at assembly output, but provides editing, benchmarking, and profiling of many languages and compiler versions. I think Godbolt delegates running code to some other site, don't recall who.
Cppreference.com is mainly a C++ and C language and library standards reference library, but provides sample programs and means to run them on various compiler versions.
That uses Coliru, which also provides edit, build, and run.
Precisely, and in that context, let's remember that such projection is fundamental to our psychology. Thus, this story would better serve as litany of cautionary vignettes of humans being human than a story of David v Goliath, a tale of The Demanding Intern, or anything else bigger-than-life.
Not the "exact thing" at all. Replit existed before he joined the company. Moreover, Codecademy's primary purpose was not a code playground.
Honest question: why are you so aggressively shilling for Repl.it in this thread?
Been reading it all day to see how it develops, and I've seen at least like 15 low-quality snippy posts by you defending Amjad Masad and his position. A friendly reminder that these kind of posts really lower the quality of discourse here on HN.
Actually, I apologize. I now realize that Radon's actions were not morally wrong. My only contention was that he broke the non-compete agreement. But I believe that agreement is itself is illegal in California.
I find the shilling strange, and I definitely would not defend Amjad on this.
I'm not sure what you mean by "these kinds of posts" though; is there something that you think is unhelpful about them other than them being wrong?
If someone is wrong about something, we should simply explain why. If that's not all, it would be nice if you clarified.