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Dockerization of track environments #234

Closed bi1yeu closed 6 years ago

bi1yeu commented 6 years ago

Hi Exercism team -- I created a project to make it easier to get started with Exercism if one's already familiar with Docker. Rather than having to install the Exercism CLI and any of the specific tooling around a track, you could just build / run the relevant image and begin coding.

The project is a few hours old, only supports the Clojure and Python tracks, and I've only tested it on MacOS. But my hope is that if somebody is looking for a way to being experimenting with a new language and/or Exercism, this could help slightly lower the barrier to entry. Just wanted to put it on your radar.

kytrinyx commented 6 years ago

This is cool, thank you for sharing.

One of our long term goals is to allow people to try out a language from within the browser (something like https://try.dot.net/ but for each of the existing languages). That's unlikely to happen in the next 18 months, though, for a number of reasons.