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inko-lang / inko

A language for building concurrent software with confidence
http://inko-lang.org/
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Add an online Playground #199

Open yorickpeterse opened 6 years ago

yorickpeterse commented 6 years ago

We need an online playground of sorts, similar to the one used by Rust, conceptually at least, tech wise I want it to be very simple and easy to maintain. That means no SCSS, TypeScript and what not.

I prefer not to run an actual server for this. Doing so means an increase in costs, having to provide some sort of web service, and having to sandbox the whole thing such that somebody doesn't take the server down by running a fork bomb. Because of this, we should first look into compiling to WASM so we can use that.

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yorickpeterse commented 6 years ago

While having this would be really nice, I suspect it will take a while before this becomes available. To support this we'd have to set up the necessary infrastructure to run arbitrary code in a container, protect against abuse (fork bombs, etc), set up an API to schedule containers, etc. This would also come with additional costs.

yorickpeterse commented 6 years ago

In GitLab by @codec-abc on Jul 23, 2018, 23:40

To be honest I didn't expected to be available quite soon (especially since there are opened issues a lot more important than this). However, it may exists solutions relying on containers that might be not so much time consuming to set up. It might worth looking into existing solution like Rust or Pony. However, I agree that the more code that run on this platform the more it will cost you. Maybe, you can consider running something like a Patreon to cover the server costs.