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Dev tools · August 24, 2016

Carbide

A new kind of programming environment

Carbide launched on August 24, 2016 with 164 votes, #186 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

Running code in Carbide is as simple as hitting the "Run" button located on the bottom right of any cell . You can also quickly run the current cell with ( Cmd-Enter ). Carbide is a notebook programming environment, so documents are organized into different "cells". Each cell can be executed independently (but can import from other modules). Currently Carbide supports the latest version of Javascript , known as ES2015 through built-in support for BabelJS. You can even use ES7's async/await features without wrapping your code in functions. In addition to running code locally within the editor, you can choose to run code within a separate window (this is nice for building out apps which need…from alpha.trycarbide.com

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