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by amasad 2792 days ago
Towards the end of the post there's a bit about our business.

As we've noticed that more people want to use repl.it for more things: from building websites and apps (250,000 in 6 months) to data science[0] and education, with a growing community of hackers[1] it's becoming a generic computing platform. The fact that the REPL is the main interface is besides the point. We're going to productize our infrastructure that runs all this.

After all, Microsoft started as a Basic interpreter for the Altair[2] ;)

[0]: https://towardsdatascience.com/build-deploy-data-science-pro...

[1]: https://repl.it/talk

[2]: http://www.paulgraham.com/altair.html