Hey guys, @boucher, @rentzsch and I are happy to get this out there, we are around if you have any questions!
Any plans to support compile-to-js languages? Coffeescript, etc.
Additionally... Tonic is comparible to CodePen in terms of testing and thus gave me the idea;
Perhaps you could also include other languages into your platform. Such as a Stylus REPL, SASS, SCSS etc. all of which, like CoffeeScript, are just JS modules on npm.
With compilers like Stylus and SCSS you would probably default the return value to be the compiled CSS, and with Coffee you'd need a toggle button to show what the compiled JS looks like, though not 100% necessary.
With that said, if there was just a way to set up a "build" script for a REPL to set up the environment to achieve the same result. As in, you require('stylus') then have some global variable stream/buffer, tonic.output, for which you could inject into the module of your choice to generate output, and then save it via tonic.buffer.write() or something. It could then be ridiculously flexible in terms of testing out finicky new languages/compilers.
Are you guys going to open source it or will this be a paid service?
There's certainly a ton of stuff we'd love to open source, but we've been focused on getting it out the door. This product is also interesting in that the ops is as challenging as the code itself, so there may be some interesting opportunities to offer paid services later, if people start wanting to do more interesting things with it. We're really just kind of hoping people show us how they can use it.
If I delete a file through there, and "go back in time" would the files would still be there?
Wouldn't that mean it's opaque, since we can't see see into it?
PS. That's picky. This is a rad project and I love the time travel & the 'requiring packages automatically installing them' feature too.