Hey! So, I was using Repl.it the other day and the internet was terrible and it kept crashing the site and it would almost never save. So I think that you should have an offline editor. That way, you can edit your code easily without the website shouting errors at you about how you aren't connected.
Adding onto that, I think that it would be great if you had a Chrome App so that way you could go in, have it sync your programs and their code, and then it would let you edit it all there. And then when you want to leave, it just syncs your code again and updates your profile with the latest programs and code!
I would love if you guys could work on a downloadable text editor for Windows and Linux, that had the same IDE functions as the website. You could use the Atom editor and integrate your IDE functionality, as well as syntax, formatting, multiplayer (which I think may already exist on Atom), your learning/teaching system... I could go on. I just think that would be a great investment for you guys!
Don't quote me on this but I think Google is deprecating Chrome Apps.
Possible to be deployed as an electron app or something?
This is something that we've been thinking of. We're dabbling with this right now, but it's not planned concretely. But I agree it would be helpful and it'll solve some connection problems
@MatthewBrash @johncokos @CyanCoding The current technology for offline capable web apps are WebWorkers. Yes, deprecation of Chrome Apps is true.
@eankeen: Yea, as of the time of my post (Jan, 11 2018) Chrome apps were still a thing. They are still now, for all of you Chrome OS users, but the general public can only install them via direct link and they aren't found in the Extension Store anymore.