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.
Why on earth are people acting like this is bizarre.
Nothing about Repl.it is even remotely unique. And in fact, it seems like they're finally catching on (RE: their post about Nix). Egotistical CEO trying to protect their tiny moat? As typical as the sun shining.
Nix + Theia + a team of moderately dedicated folks could replicate the important parts of Repl.it in a month. I'd bet my fucking life on it. Mostly because I've done it and I'm a highly unmotivated pot-head.
>Evidently, I am not a good judge of character, and I need to stop believing in people without really knowing them.
I seriously hope this sticks with you. I've let a lot of my frustration with HN and other social media go when I've realized that people are not good judges of characters of others.
God damn people fall for scams, charlatans and more all the time. I spent much of high school frustrated because one of my closer friends was just a constant grifter and no one could ever see through it despite my innards constantly screaming ALERT ALERT ALERT.
STOP GOING TO BAT FOR STRANGERS, FOLKS.
And when people tell you and show you who they are fucking believe them.
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oh man this is the kind of stuff that eats at me. I have a better sense of tech than most (adopted Rust, K8s and crypto 3+ years before they were on anyone's radar), but I also don't fall for this shit. Do you not realize how cringe it is to watch you fall over yourself for yet another egostistic SV megalomaniac.
nothing about replit is that unique either, to hear the way y'all jerk off about is... well holy shit no one there's a contingency of us still refusing to go back to the industry. I'd rather shoot myself.
Nothing about replit is unique. I don't know how to stress that more. Give me $50K and Theia and I could make a MVP that apparently stupid VCs would be dying to fund.
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.
I knew that looked familiar...
https://i.imgur.com/ITCFzeu.png (order: middle, bottom, top). Lucky me (not sarcastic, DOA is far from worst-case scenario).
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.