Toward Building a Holistic Development Service

Software development is a process of Man-Computer Symbiosis that combines human creative design with the computer's routine tasks. However, current development environments have their tools fragmented by stage, following the Unix philosophy of 'do one thing well.'

This fragmentation makes it difficult to share information between tools. For example, even when a new programming language version is released, inefficiencies arise as one must wait until every development tool's Parser is updated.

Replit is building a Holistic Development Service from the ground up to solve this problem. Replit's service has evolved as follows:

• Code execution and file system monitoring
• Code intelligence (Linting, etc.)
• Educational tools (running unit tests, etc.)
• Deployment support

Replit's goal is to provide an always-on service that can understand and leverage every stage of code regardless of device, platform, or language. To this end, Replit aims to integrate primitives such as the project file system, code execution, and code intelligence into a single abstracted protocol to deliver a better development experience.