What do you mean by REPL?

A Read-Eval-Print Loop, or REPL, is a computer environment where user inputs are read and evaluated, and then the results are returned to the user . REPLs provide an interactive environment to explore tools available in specific environments or programming languages.

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How is Repl.it built?

When a Repl.it IDE browser creates a new file, it obtains a signed URL from the web server to create the file in Cloud Storage . “That way the browser’s writing to and reading from Cloud Storage directly,” says Amjad. “This enables Repl.it to use Cloud Storage to synchronize its files and file system.”

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