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Re:Repl from Repo by amasad on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:35PM (#21766521)

Gitpod is awesome and a really bright team behind it.

However, Repl.it is different in that we're focused on speed and minimal configuration. You don't even need to login to clone a repo and start it.

The URL structure is repl.it/github/<GitHub path>

Try this 2048 implementation in C: https://repl.it/github/mevdschee/2048.c

(You can even run it on your phone!)

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Re:Repl from Repo by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:41PM (#21767571)

If the Github repo has a docker-compose.yml file in it, can it spin up all of the containers?

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Re:Repl from Repo by amasad on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:06PM (#21767748)

Not yet. But planned

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Re:Repl from Repo by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:27PM (#21767894)

I don't see how repl.it doesn't get burned doing that. You could host my entire ELK stack and Postgres database... what would the resource limits be? What would the cost be?

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Re:Repl from Repo by sansnomme on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:05PM (#21768443)

I think repl.it is still at the growth and scale stage. Actual profitability probably won't matter much for another couple of years. (They run on Google Cloud so the costs are pretty insane without VC funding.)

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Re:Repl from Repo by 0x4FFC8F on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:49AM (#21769573)

Okay this is irrelevant to the discussion but I just typed in `github/mevdschee/2048.c` in the address bar expecting Firefox to perform a Google search but it instead lead me to the repo! What!

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Re:Repl from Repo by Liquid_Fire on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:15AM (#21770736)

If you type something that is not a valid/existing domain, Firefox will try to append .com and/or prepend www. in an attempt to get a valid domain. If that fails, it will do a search.

You can configure this via browser.fixup.alternate.* in about:config.

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Re:Repl from Repo by whycombagator on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:42PM (#21766597)

> Try this 2048 implementation in C: https://repl.it/github/mevdschee/2048.c

I did and got: "Failed to connect, retrying"

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Re:Repl from Repo by amasad on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @03:46PM (#21766634)

Are you behind a firewall? Some block websockets. It also could be an aggressive adblocker.

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Re:Repl from Repo by TumorousJoker on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:02PM (#21766798)

Yup, I can confirm it doesn't play nice with Ad blockers for some reason because it worked on chrome and Firefox on my android phone, but did not work with Firefox focus

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Re:Repl from Repo by amasad on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:08PM (#21766831)

Thanks -- we'll take a look!

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Re:Repl from Repo by whycombagator on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:29PM (#21769042)

At the time I tried turning off privacy badger and ublock, but the issue persisted.

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Re:Repl from Repo by verttii on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:52PM (#21767646)

Public sharing of REPLs for anyone even without an account is just awesome. Gitpod or anyone else that I know of doesn't offer this.

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