Hey all! I'm one of the co-founders of CodeSandbox and a big fan of Rust. Rust support is something that we've been working on for a while, but the recent addition of Docker support in CodeSandbox really enabled it. Happy to answer any questions!
I recently tried to work on CodeSandbox. Simple examples didn’t work or I couldn’t figure out how to make them work. Using repl.it now. I highly recommend to go through basic examples of frontend projects and evaluate them.
I'd say that CodeSandbox has a strong focus on extending the existing workflow for developers. That's why we have a VSCode integration, a GitHub integration with a GitHub App that creates a running dev env for every branch/PR, and we make sure that generally all editor features you expect (autocomplete, go to definition, hover info, etc) are available for the languages that we support.
No, we've built our own web editor & iOS code editor. In our v1 editor we did run VSCode in the browser, but that was before code-server was released (in 2018). Even if we wanted to run code-server, that would be impossible as we allow for multiple users to open the same sandbox/branch, which wouldn't fit the model of VSCode server (which is single user per server).
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Hey all! I'm one of the co-founders of CodeSandbox and a big fan of Rust. Rust support is something that we've been working on for a while, but the recent addition of Docker support in CodeSandbox really enabled it. Happy to answer any questions!
I recently tried to work on CodeSandbox. Simple examples didn’t work or I couldn’t figure out how to make them work. Using repl.it now. I highly recommend to go through basic examples of frontend projects and evaluate them.
Is your biggest competitor Repl.it? What advantages do you have compared to them?
I know https://play.rust-lang.org/ is pretty limited as well.
Yeah Repl.it is one of the bigger ones.
I'd say that CodeSandbox has a strong focus on extending the existing workflow for developers. That's why we have a VSCode integration, a GitHub integration with a GitHub App that creates a running dev env for every branch/PR, and we make sure that generally all editor features you expect (autocomplete, go to definition, hover info, etc) are available for the languages that we support.
Are you basically reselling hosted https://github.com/coder/code-server?
No, we've built our own web editor & iOS code editor. In our v1 editor we did run VSCode in the browser, but that was before code-server was released (in 2018). Even if we wanted to run code-server, that would be impossible as we allow for multiple users to open the same sandbox/branch, which wouldn't fit the model of VSCode server (which is single user per server).
They aren't at all (creator of code-server here)! I'm a big fan of their work.