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Deco is great but it's an IDE and the way we approach things is a little bit different than how IDEs do. Generally speaking, when you're an IDE you're competing with all the other IDEs on feature-by-feature basis because you want to support the entire developer workflow.

For Repl.it, we approach everything from the novice point-of-view. We're ok with things being missing as long as we make it very easy for people who are just getting started with programming. We'll expand towards more power as long as it doesn't overwhelm or takeaway from the beginners experience.

For example, when we wanted to support third-party packages one way we could've done it is allow people bash access to install packages from PyPi but instead we've invested the time to pre-install all PyPi packages in existence on shared drive (https://repl.it/site/blog/python-import) and mount it on every container we start for our users. That way you don't have to know how to install it to get started with, say SciPy.