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stephengillie·

http://www.codenow.com/

The site wants you to enter your email and request an invite.

What we are doing is very tricky, so we are throttling the flow of users into the system

Hence the email signup form. No spam, promise!

Yash (Chief Hacker, CodeNow.com)

It looks like it supports PHP; anything else?

We support every web stack - PHP, Python, Ruby and Node

Interesting definition of every :)

Can you define "support"?

I want to know if their JS [attempts to] parse the code (ex: PHP), or if it sends it to one of their servers (that's running PHP) and gets the output.

I get that it works in the browser using JS, but does this work offline?

Common JVM and .NET web stacks are missing, which are my daily bread.

Funny definition of every.

I signed up, I figured it was worth a try. It executes server side code when the other code sandboxes like jsfiddle out there don't.

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