replit Reviews

1. Monkeyman666

   | sysadmin at dagul | over 2 years ago
   Nice web hosting for small website [non production]

   easy setup.

   🏁 Competitors: Heroku
2. Guest

   almost 3 years ago
   very good for my kids

Flox Reviews

replit mentions (604)

• ICQ will stop working from June 26

  Yeah I use firefox's secure password store of late with long passwords generated either automatically or via a dictionary-word password generator I created https://replit.com/@pmarreck/Random-and-dictionary-password-generator. - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Ask HN: How do I get better at programming as a hobbyist?

  I have had a lot of fun using Python on a Raspberry Pi [2].

    [1] https://replit.com/ (has a free tier).

  - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Best Free Website Hosting Options for Developers

  Repl.it — a cloud-based platform for coding in various languages, allowing for experimentation and collaboration. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Downgraded my website to GitHub pages; couldn't be happier

  Compare this to https://replit.com/ which pushes their deployment and you realize that for static website which can do a lot of things these days VS Code with great GitHub integration is just easier and better. And it is easier/cheaper than Vercel too :) Once you want some serverside/db things there are number of paths... Supabase, edge functions, DigitalOcean, AWS, Zapier hooks. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• The Claro Programming Language

  So, I understand why it seems like that Java signature you gave would work, but it in fact does not work. Check out this replit example to see the full example with your signature: https://replit.com/@JasonSteving1/DemoTypeSystemLimitation#src/main/java/Main.java. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Flox mentions (2)

• Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager

  Flox is the best thing I know of for articulating binary dependencies (language runtimes, etc.), which is probably the sweet spot for nix anyways at the moment. Flox uses nix for its backend, but has a simple TOML syntax and is properly humble about what it can do -- but killer at it -- as opposed to promising the world. https://flox.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

  Nix and NixOS are in something like the state git was in before GitHub: the fundamental idea is based on more serious computer science than the status quo (SVN, Docker), the plumbing still has some issues but isn’t worse, and the porcelain and docs are just not there for mainstream adoption. I think that might have changed with the release of flox: https://flox.dev, it’s basically seamless (and that’s not... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago