Promoting custom language templates

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Although they do not promote “custom” programming languages, so if you make a language ig it has to have a large following.

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This I don’t understand because there are literally dead programming languages that are templates on Replit, such as Oak, and Forth just to name 2

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We’ll probably cleanup dead/underused templates sometime but a few reason for some now dead languages are:

  1. At the time those languages had people using
  2. We were targeting specific users or communities with some languages
  3. A Replit team member decided to add support to a language as a side project or during our Nix* migration.
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Our promoted templates is meant to be a professional curation of all the published templates on Replit, which is why we don’t promote the majority of templates we see and why we don’t promote custom languages. We might change this sometime in the future though :).

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What counts as a “custom” language? Wouldn’t the person who, for example, created Python, consider it a “custom” programming language…?

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Good question! We don’t really have a quantitative method for this, but if we feel that without the template available there would be something missing for a greater part of our userbase then we will promote it.

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We try to balance content and quality. If we promoted every language template then we would lose the quality in promoted templates, but we also don’t want to miss out on things that y’all find useful :).

We also can’t be selective on custom languages either - if we promote one custom language then we would need to promote them all but some of these aren’t of the same quality as our promoted templates feed so to avoid any feelings of missing out among users we just don’t promote any custom languages.

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