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What are the best code playgrounds and pastebins?
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Best code playgrounds and pastebins
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CodeSandbox
Free | 12$/month | 108$/year
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Regex 101
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Web
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JSFiddle
Free | 8$/Month | 90$ / year
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Codepen
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Storm
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CodeSandbox
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Free | 12$/month | 108$/year
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Regex 101
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Regex 101
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Regex 101
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Color-codes capture groups
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Slow with large data
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Easy to use UI
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JSFiddle
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JSFiddle
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No auto-updating
JSFiddle requires you to save and run your code any time you want to see changes.
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Allows collaborating on code
JSFiddle has a collaboration feature that makes it easy pair program.
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Private Coding:
Paid
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Supports a wide variety of frameworks and extensions 
JSFiddle can switch to selection of frameworks and extensions including jQuery, AngularJS, ReactiveJS, D3 simply from a dropdown.
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CoffeeScript and scss support 
In addition to supporting JavaScript and CSS, language settings can be switched to CoffeeScript and SCSS.
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Free | 8$/Month | 90$ / year
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Codepen
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Codepen
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Codepen
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Easily export your pen
CodePen makes it really easy to export code as a zip or Github Gist.
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No private pens with free account
There is an option on Codepen for private pens, however it requires upgrading to a Pro account ($9/month).
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Real time output
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Lots of support for frameworks and preprocessors
CodePen has an impressive amount of support for preprocessors (such as Jade, Haml, Slim, Sass, Less, Stylus, Coffeescript and PostCSS). There is also plenty of frameworks and libraries to pick from (Foundation, Bootstrap, Angular, D3, Backbone, Ember etc.).
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Great display/profile page
The codepen profile page allows you to display all of your public pens, and control which order you want them to be viewed in. This is great for showing off your work to possible employers, other devs etc..
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Easily fork pens
To fork a pen only requires clicking one button, and you'll be able to modify the pen on your own account.
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Great community pens
You can search through other pens, either by keyword or popular, picked or recent.
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Storm
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Storm
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Storm
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scribbleX Dev's Experience
It provides a user friendly environment.
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SQL Fiddle
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SQL Fiddle
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SQL Fiddle
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PostgreSQL 9.3.1 Support
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MySQL 5.5.32 Support
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MS SQL Server 2012 Support
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Oracle 11g R2 Support
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Ability to Save & Share
On running an SQL statement the URL is updated to give a unique URL corresponding with your query. This can then be shared with others to allow them to view, run, and amend your query.
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PostgreSQL 8.3.20 Support
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PostgreSQL 8.4.17 Support
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PostgreSQL 9.1.9 Support
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PostgreSQL 9.2.4 Support
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MySQL 5.1.61 Support
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MySQL 5.6.6 m9 Support
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SQLite (WebSQL) Support
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SQLite (SQL.js) Support
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MS SQL Server 2008 Support
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JS Bin
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JS Bin
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JS Bin
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Open-source
see https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin
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Simple UI
Each panel can be made full height and be closed if not used
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paste.kde.org
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paste.kde.org
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paste.kde.org
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Github Gist
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GodBolt Interactive C++ Compiler
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GodBolt Interactive C++ Compiler
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GodBolt Interactive C++ Compiler
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.Net Fiddle
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.Net Fiddle
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.Net Fiddle
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2
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Convert Language
The site has a tool to automatically translate between VB.Net and C# code.
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Web
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snippet.host
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snippet.host
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Very fast to load
It's probably the most optimized pastebin on the internet
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PythonFiddle
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PythonFiddle
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ClojureJS Fiddle
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ClojureJS Fiddle
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Found.no/play
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Found.no/play
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Found.no/play
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Coding ground
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Coding ground
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Coding ground
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ReFiddle
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ReFiddle
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ReFiddle
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hastebin
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hastebin
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hastebin
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Hosted and Self Hosted
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Scala-Js-Fiddle
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Scala-Js-Fiddle
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Scala-Js-Fiddle
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R Fiddle
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R Fiddle
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