Last year I insisted my CS students stop using replit & learn to run their projects in python, java on their computers. They HATED it. I felt old fashioned, didactic. "This is just a company trying to get you hooked on their service, you all know how they throttle your virtual machines just to get you to sign up? That's a bad sign."
This year a couple of them thanked me for doing this in the hall the other day. "You were right, Mrs. Futurebird*"
I coud cry for joy.
*no they don't call me that