Fyi, there's another similar project called gitpod.io<p>Take any github repo, prepend the url with "<a href="https://gitpod.io/#"" rel="nofollow">https://gitpod.io/#"</a>, and hit Enter<p>(so <a href="https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus</a> would become <a href="https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus" rel="nofollow">https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus</a>)<p>That'll open up an instance of VSCode in a web browser and you can start coding
repl.it is a god sent for low income students I teach CS to. They only have Chromebooks but can run Python, C++ and more.<p>My feedback to the team is that please try using it on those slow and small Chromebooks. You'll see how the navbar is eating 20% of vertical space in a 11 inch Chromebook. Make the UI dense. Those kids have sharp eyes!
Repl.it is an amazing cloud-based IDE, and I'm super excited that they just launched a Git GUI and GitHub integration! Now it's possible to import almost any repository from GitHub in the click of a button and get it running with a very minimal amount of configuration.<p>There are still a few kinks to work out, but I can see this being very useful.
I've been a fan of repl.it from the start, though I failed to see the utility that a senior dev/someone with compute resources would derive from it. With this new feature, however, I think repl.it will save developers a lot of time. Kudos!
Somebody submitted a PR to a JavaScript/glsl game of mine last night (<a href="https://github.com/westoncb/under-game" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/westoncb/under-game</a>), adding a badge/link that would open the repo on repl.it.<p>I looked around at the user's activity a bit and they had sent essentially the same PR to at least one other repo recently, and appeared to be affiliated with repl.it.<p>I went ahead and merged the PR since it does just seem like a small net positive addition.<p>I still wonder though: what downside to this might I be missing?
I really like Repl.it as a learning tool, and I used it a bunch while transitioning from ruby to python, although its also given me a few bad habits, and I've never been able to find much use for it while working on "real" projects. Still, I pull it up from time to time, just to confirm some bit of code I'm working on.<p>it's still the best multi-language Powershell ISE-ish repl I've ever used though :)
I can get the repo cloned, but nothing builds automatically. Specifically, when I click the "run on repl.it" badge, a repl.it command line appears with the cloned repo, but the <i>run</i> command from the .replit file is not invoked. I can type the command manually and then everything works.<p>I tried the first three examples (ascii_racer, minesweeper, ddgr) on both Safari (with ad blocker) and Chrome (no ad blocker). I do not have a repl.it account, so I am not logged into anything.<p>Overall this feature looks very impressive.
What's the recommended way to deal with projects that have system level dependencies? (E.g. in C). I have build scripts but no way to install anything. Do I have to use docker or some other container technology?<p>Edit: sounds like they plan on allowing docker containers which would be really nice. Great job on the MVP.
There is a well established FOSS IDE that does the job: <a href="http://eclipse.org/che" rel="nofollow">http://eclipse.org/che</a> (SaaS <a href="http://codenvy.com" rel="nofollow">http://codenvy.com</a>)
This is awesome guys! One conversion suggestion, in your "Try it out" section, add the repl.it link beside the project. I went into ascii_racer and didn't find the repl.it button so I bounced.<p>From repo to running repl is a dream.
so it tries to automatically submit prs to repos using the users? sounds like why typescript has the @types org. I'd be annoyed receiving prs of weird metadata from people using some random site or tool.
Will this change the pricing model at all? Or add a new tier? NBD if it does, just wondering if a lot of people start using this if Repl.it can keep the lights on.
The big thing missing on repl.it is to use visual studio code instead of their own editor (think like Stackblitz), that would really be a game changer to be able to use one custom key-shortcuts, to use vscode plugins and so on.