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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by jimbokun on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:49PM (#18279275)
Dependency management is the big one, I think.

It’s still pretty easy to run default Python prompt in MacOS (as long as you know what the terminal is). But it gets complex really fast the moment you want to use a cool library. Which is probably a few minutes into your coding tutorial.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by amasad on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:30PM (#18279512)
Agreed. It's also a tough problem. Before starting Repl.it, I worked on a JavaScript packager at Facebook (which became the Metro Packager).

With Repl.it we're working on what we're calling a "universal package manager", a common abstraction on top of the various language package managers. It also has a visual interface which generates a requirements.txt/package.json/etc for you.

https://repl.it/site/blog/packager

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by thrower123 on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:35PM (#18280549)
How is this so difficult? I haven't done much since the 2.X days, and I was on Windows, but I used to grab the PyGame installer and have sprites drawing on screen in 15 minutes 15 years ago.
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