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GitHub Codespaces was announced at Satellite and it's basically what you say - a way for developers to skip the "setting up" step (often the most annoying step and single biggest blocker for OSS contributions) in a new repo. https://github.com/features/codespaces

Disclaimer, I helped make these :)

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Interesting. Yes this is definitely in the direction I was thinking. I'd also say Repl.it is very similar too. Maybe they'll be acquired.

> I'd also say Repl.it is very similar too.

Indeed. It's interesting that GitHub Classroom uses Repl.it (and another MS web IDE) rather than Github Codespaces:

https://github.blog/2020-05-26-code-in-the-browser-with-gith...

https://classroom.github.com/help/online-ide-integrations

Seems like a friendly ecosystem for the moment.

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