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We've always been focused on the front end of the web because it's what we know and love. Focusing on just front end languages allows our small team to create a quality product. There is still a lot left to accomplish to support frontend technology on the web.

Backend languages bring unique security problems we'd have to tackle to properly support them. We just released CodePen projects that use Docker containers to run code securely. We could use this tech to support backend languages in the future.

We can't say no forever to backend languages but it'll be a while before we add them to CodePen.

I think it would be super cool, but it would be a massive project with huge hurdles and unknown challenges. Like Alex said, it's certainly not right around the corner for us.

To me it feels like a big risky gamble. The kind of thing you take a huge pile of funding to do. You hope you can pull it off in a way that catches on, and if not, oh well, you just lost some rich people's money. I like the idea of moving a little slower and releasing things we know we can do well and that people want and making a healthy (if smaller) business out of it.