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  • Wed, Feb 23, 2022

    All 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, 2022

    Announcing 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, 2022

    Making 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...
  • Tue, Dec 14, 2021

    Repl 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, 2021

    Ace, 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, 2021

    Will Nix Overtake Docker?

    In many discussions about Nix, the comparison of Nix and Docker comes up frequently. This question could be dismissed by...
  • 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...
  • Tue, Oct 12, 2021

    Faster Nix Repl Startup

    For the past few months we have been working on improving our Nix integration. Nix allows users to easily use over 80,00...
  • Fri, Sep 10, 2021

    Data Loss: a sad tale with a happy ending

    Earlier this year, we discovered that we were losing data for some of our users. This manifested as either repls being c...
  • Wed, Sep 1, 2021

    Making Replit Faster for Everyone

    Replit's mission is to make programming accessible and provide computer superpowers. To achieve that goal, repls need to...
  • Thu, Aug 5, 2021

    Replit²

    Replit has many use cases and features, but one that's less talked about is its ability to serve as a secure compute env...
  • Thu, Jun 24, 2021

    Dynamic version for Nix derivations

    UPDATE - 05/07/2021 Thanks to Travis Cardwell for letting us know that Nix requires the version part of the derivation n...
  • Mon, May 24, 2021

    How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them

    At Replit, we want to give our users the most powerful, flexible, and easy-to-get-started coding environment. However, i...
  • Wed, Apr 28, 2021

    Why We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure

    This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what cl...
  • Fri, Mar 26, 2021

    Welcome to the Wonderful World of Clusters

    Having a solid foundation is critical for us to be able to fulfill our mission of making programming more accessible, mo...