Replit, Inc
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Formerly | Repl.it |
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | San Francisco, California, US |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Foster City, California |
Number of locations | 2 offices (2022) |
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| Services | Community, hosting, IDE |
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| 🌐 Website | replit |
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Replit (/ˈrɛplɪt/), former Repl.it, is an American technology company. Founded in 2016, Replit developed an online integrated development environment (IDE) also named Replit that supports various programming languages.[1] In September 2024, it released the first version of Replit Agent, an AI agent for automating software development, with which users can interact in natural language.[2]
History
In 2009, having seen significant advancements in browser and web technologies, Masad imagined a development environment built on the same premise as Google Docs; that is, allowing the user to write and share code all in a web browser. In 2011, he produced an early open-source version of this concept, called "JSRepl".[3] Because Masad then spent a few years working at various companies,[1] including Udacity and Codecademy, JSRepl was used for the in-browser tutorials of Udacity and Codecademy.[4]
Replit was founded in 2016 by the Jordanian programmers Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and designer Haya Odeh.[5][6] It was incorporated in San Mateo.[7][8][9][10] Its name comes from the acronym REPL, which stands for "read–evaluate–print loop". Initially a collaborative coding platform, Replit became with Agent an AI-powered software creation ecosystem centered around the ability to build complete applications by describing them in natural language.
In July 2025, Replit announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate its development platform with Microsoft’s enterprise tools, including the Azure cloud infrastructure, making Replit’s services available through the Azure Marketplace.[11] That same month, Replit's AI agent went "rogue" and deleted a client company's entire database during a code freeze, against the prompter's wishes.[12] This incident earned a nomination in the 2025 AI Darwin Awards.[13]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Repl.it lets you program in your browser". TechCrunch. March 15, 2018. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
- ↑ Bastian, Matthias (2024-09-07). "First users praise Replit's new AI coding assistant". The Decoder. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
- ↑ Masad, Amjad (March 9, 2021). "Replit Dotcom". Replit. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ↑ Sawers, Paul (18 February 2021). "Replit raises $20 million for collaborative browser-based coding". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Rodriguez, Salvador (October 22, 2018). "Former Facebook engineer quit to build the programming tool he always wanted". CNBC.
- ↑ "Today's Entrepreneur: Faris Masad". VatorNews. 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ↑ Replit (2021-01-27). "Replit — Going Global". Replit Blog. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ↑ "About - Repl.it". repl.it/about. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Eisenberg, Bart (October 22, 2012). "#42 Computer Science 2.0: Part 1―Amjad Masad: Engineer, Codecademy; Co-inventor, repl.it". Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ↑ Spina, Carli (May 5, 2014). "Practice Programming Languages In Your Browser With Repl.it". Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ↑ Sherry, Ben (2025-07-09). "Microsoft and Replit Are Teaming Up to Make Vibe Coding for Businesses Even Easier". Inc. Archived from the original on July 11, 2025. Retrieved 2025-07-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Tyson, Mark (July 21, 2025). "AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
- ↑ Gault, Matthew (September 9, 2025). "AI Darwin Awards Show AI's Biggest Problem Is Human". 404 Media. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
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