How Replit’s AI Tools are Changing Software Development with Co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups
Evolution of Replit from College Prototype to Industry Contributions
The speaker's journey with Replit started during college when they struggled with setting up a development environment and conceived the idea of coding in a browser window. They created a prototype which gained popularity among their friends. This led to the development of the first in-browser sandbox, pioneering the compilation of languages like Python and Ruby to JavaScript. They open sourced the project, worked at Code Academy as a founding engineer, and then contributed to the development of React Native, React, Babel, and other tools widely used by JavaScript developers today.
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