Comment by xbp
5 years ago
Appalling and completely unacceptable behavior from a company so committed to being a conduit for open-source innovation.
Slightly unrelated: I used to shamelessly promote repl.it a couple years ago, but no longer do because their app has become so bloated and hard to use that it's discouraging to beginners -- recently I tried to remotely help a non-technical friend w/ an assignment and we must've spent ~20 minutes dealing with account creation, sending the correct invite link, and making sure we could both see our changes; it felt like a terrible waste of time especially as I kept reminding them "I promise it's worth it this app rocks!"
The app used to actually be awesome back when you could spin up an env in seconds, send the link to a friend, and immediately start collaborating.. Hopefully this will be the nail in the coffin, or at least lead to a mass migration from the platform.. :/
I only want something with slightly less friction than a jupyter notebook but better for controlled editing that an ipython shell. Something that doesnt make any files on my filesystem or anything else that I have to clean up later. That's why I'm looking for an online repl!
Okay, I can live with having to be logged in because it keeps me logged in for a long time, but do I really need to figure out what I want to call this "project" which is two functions and a print that I never want the world to see?
For a few glorious years, repl.it was exactly what I wanted when it came to writing derpy little one-off functions.
I'm building Starboard, https://starboard.gg, maybe that fits your needs? It runs in the browser itself and is open source.
Oooh this is very neat! I love the confetti button part of the demo. I will try to remember this next time I reach for an online repl.