Glot.io – An open source multi-lang pastebin with runnable snippets and API

Glot.io – An open source multi-lang pastebin with runnable snippets and API(glot.io)

67 points by dannyow 6 years ago | 8 comments

dabei 6 years ago |

This seems not cheap to operate. What is the business model?

mttjj 6 years ago | |

I have an ad-blocker (and a network ad-blocker via the corporate network I'm connected to right now) but when I click on any one of the languages I can see a box labeled "ads via Carbon" to the right of the stdin box. So my guess would be that it's ad-supported for now.

mosselman 6 years ago | | |

You'd think that all people interested in something like this have an ad-blocker. I wonder what the revenue is like.

52-6F-62 6 years ago |

Cool. This is quite usable and seems really handy—it's really fast compared to some heavier online repls. (definitely a use case for me)

How is it set up? I was definitely able to crash an instance I was in as well as read from root, but seemed all it took was a reload of the page and it snapped right back in without any real startup wait.

*edit: I just saw that you posted the source code as well. I'll definitely be exploring!

dijit 6 years ago | |

Seems like he spins up a container on each run, so 'root' is not really 'root'. I'd be worried though, containers are not secure enough to run untrusted code.

maxmcd 6 years ago | | |

yeah this setup seems to indicate it's just running regular docker: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-run/blob/master/docker_se...

pdexter 6 years ago | |

It doesn't offer a repl as far as I've seen.

52-6F-62 6 years ago | | |

You're right. Fudged terminology. It does read-eval-print, but not in an interactive loop.