Replit

Repl.it is a free and user-friendly online IDE that supports multiple languages and allows collaboration on projects, as well as the ability to download frameworks through the terminal.

Origin and Mission

Founded in 2016, Replit's core product is browser-based IDE software, and in 2022 it went live with GhostWriter, an AI programming assistant in which users can develop, compile, run, and host applications in over 50 languages. The product is considered the easiest place for beginners to get started with programming, while also allowing more experienced programmers to test and build applications.

Replit's mission is to enable the next generation of a billion people to develop online, giving everyone the ability to create software and get rich doing it. The company believes that in the modern world, the ability to write code should be as common as the ability to write a paper. It wants to lead the shift from a stacked model of software creation to a networked model and create the world's first massively distributed and collaborative operating system. Currently there are only ten million developers in the world, and more than 900 million of the future billion developers are expected to be non-professionals doing lightweight development. Empowered by AI, the code generation ability in this operating system has made a qualitative leap, and the ability of natural language to realize business logic has greatly increased.

1. Started as a SaaS product to help programmers do a good job of environment deployment and collaborative programming

Replit helps developers to make code more complete, generate code, transform code and interpret code. Based on Replit, users can run code, create projects, collaborate with others, and share projects in a browser.Replit also provides a series of tools and features, such as code auto-completion, debuggers, version control, and deployment tools, so that users can do programming work more easily. In addition, Replit provides support for a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, including Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, React, and Flask, as well as one-click deployment of Github open source code.

2. Rapidly embrace the age of AI and work with new weaponry

On September 8, 2022, Replit launched Ghostwriter, bringing "code generation capabilities" directly into existing development environments. It allows you to write code, debug code, give advice and interpret code in a dialog format.

Ghostwriter's base model is built on open source models such as Salesforce's CodeGen and converted to FasterTransformer to improve latency. In addition, Ghostwriter is further optimized based on the context users leave behind on Replit, and AI capabilities will be extended to Replit's entire IDE product, enabling a wider range of features to be powered by AI.