Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
Python, the &quot;second best language for everything&quot;, has had a huge impact for teaching people programming. Beginners can do useful and interesting things and solve real problems after a few hours of learning.<p>And yet the number of times I&#x27;ve seen beginners completely discouraged or even give up programming forever because they have conda and pip and brew and pyenv installed and can&#x27;t run a basic script after 4 hours of trying because environment mess-up is ridiculous.<p>The value in a programming environment that literally just works and can give you a functioning web app (the modern very basic I&#x2F;O) in less than a minute is a huge value add for education.<p>I&#x27;m a complete convert. I&#x27;ve worked with Amasad to write tutorials[0] showing how easy repl is to use and these have become some of my most popular tutorials.<p>Absolutely incredible that repl.it has done so much in such a short time and with a very small team. All the best for the future!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codementor.io&#x2F;garethdwyer&#x2F;posts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codementor.io&#x2F;garethdwyer&#x2F;posts</a>