Replit
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| Formerly | Repl.it |
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| Founded | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Number of locations | 2 offices (2022) |
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| Website | replit |
Replit (/ˈrɛplɪt/), formerly Repl.it, is an American AI company with natural language application development through its Agent platform. Founded in 2016 as a online integrated development environment (IDE),[1] Replit creates software via AI with a platform called Agent.
History
[edit]Replit was co-founded by the Jordanian programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and designer Haya Odeh in 2016.[2][3] It was incorporated in San Mateo.[4][5][6][7] Its name comes from the acronym REPL, which stands for "read–evaluate–print loop". Replit has transformed from a collaborative coding platform into an AI-powered software creation ecosystem centered around the ability to build complete applications by describing them in natural language. The company's Agent technology converts plain English descriptions into functioning software.
Before creating Replit, Amjad Masad worked in engineering roles at Yahoo and Facebook, where he built development tools. He also helped found Codecademy. Masad had come up with the idea for Replit over a decade before its creation.[8]
In 2009, having seen significant advancements in browser and web technologies, Masad imagined a development environment built on the same premise as Google Docs; that is, allowing the user to write and share code all in a web browser. In 2011, he produced an early open-source version of this concept, called “JSRepl”.[9] Because Masad then spent a few years working at various companies,[1] including Udacity and Codecademy, JSRepl was used to power Udacity and Codecademy's in-browser tutorials.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Repl.it lets you program in your browser". TechCrunch. March 15, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
- ^ Rodriguez, Salvador (October 22, 2018). "Former Facebook engineer quit to build the programming tool he always wanted". CNBC.
- ^ "Today's Entrepreneur: Faris Masad". VatorNews. April 30, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ Replit (January 27, 2021). "Replit — Going Global". Replit Blog. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
- ^ "About - Repl.it". repl.it/about. Archived from the original on August 24, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ Eisenberg, Bart (October 22, 2012). "#42 Computer Science 2.0: Part 1―Amjad Masad: Engineer, Codecademy; Co-inventor, repl.it". Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ Spina, Carli (May 5, 2014). "Practice Programming Languages In Your Browser With Repl.it". Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ a b Sawers, Paul (February 18, 2021). "Replit raises $20 million for collaborative browser-based coding". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ Masad, Amjad (March 9, 2021). "Replit Dotcom". Replit. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
