Wed, Mar 16, 2022Escaping Dirty Pipe (a.k.a. CVE-2022-0847), mostly unscathed
You may have heard that there was a very critical Linux kernel vulnerability making the rounds. As with all important en...
Wed, Mar 9, 2022Betting on CodeMirror
At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, w...
Wed, Feb 23, 2022All New Repls are Powered By Nix
For the past year we have been working hard to integrate Nix into our platform and rebuild our existing language experie...
Fri, Feb 11, 2022Announcing File Persistence in Hosted Apps… for Everyone!
Replit is your computer — for whatever you need to do. We announced last year that Hackers would be able to have their h...
Fri, Feb 4, 2022Making new Python repls 100x faster to start up
Python is currently the world's (and Replit's) most popular programming language. We've improved the Python experience d...
Mon, Jan 31, 2022Understanding Repl Resource Utilization
Every computer on earth needs these three essential resources in some form: Processor Memory Storage The computers w...
Fri, Jan 21, 2022Going Where the Next Billion Creators Are
Mobile is the future of computing. But building good software creation tools for mobile devices is hard. Luckily, at Rep...
Tue, Jan 11, 2022Migrating our Web App from Heroku to GCP
After many years of running on Heroku, Replit has fully migrated to Google Cloud Platform. Why leave Heroku in the firs...
Wed, Dec 22, 2021Implementing RUI, Replit's Design System
At Replit, we have a small engineering and design team supporting millions of users. Our secret is investing in good too...
Tue, Dec 14, 2021Repl Space and Templates
When we want to support a new technology, we're faced with the question: "Do we (the Replit team) build this capability ...
Mon, Dec 13, 2021Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A Comparison of the Code Editors You Use in the Browser
I’ve been working on Replit for roughly six years now, and as the team has grown, I’ve focused on the IDE (what we call ...
Mon, Nov 29, 2021Will Nix Overtake Docker?
In many discussions about Nix, the comparison of Nix and Docker comes up frequently. This question could be dismissed by...
Sun, Nov 21, 2021How to Set Up Your Own Mastodon Instance with Replit
With many development tools and even whole development environments moving to the cloud, Replit is at the forefront of t...
- Thu, Nov 11, 2021
Announcing File Persistence in Hosted Apps for Hackers
We mostly think of repls as being full computers in the cloud, and one of the goals of the platform team at Replit is to...
- Sun, Oct 24, 2021
Betting on Nix: donating $25K to the NixOS Foundation
As building software grows more like snapping Legos together, how people find and use those Legos becomes more important...