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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 addit

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!

MuffinFlavored 4y ago
Is your biggest competitor Repl.it? What advantages do you have compared to them? I know https://play.rust-lang.org/ https://play.rust-lang.org/ is pretty limited as well.
- CompuIves 4y ago
  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.
  - MuffinFlavored 4y ago
    Are you basically reselling hosted https://github.com/coder/code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server?
    - CompuIves 4y ago
      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).
    - kylecarbs 4y ago
      They aren't at all (creator of code-server here)! I'm a big fan of their work.
    - deleted 4y ago
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terpimost 4y ago
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.

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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 addit

by CompuIves 4y ago

MuffinFlavored 4y ago
Is your biggest competitor Repl.it? What advantages do you have compared to them? I know https://play.rust-lang.org/ https://play.rust-lang.org/ is pretty limited as well.
- CompuIves 4y ago
  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.
  - MuffinFlavored 4y ago
    Are you basically reselling hosted https://github.com/coder/code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server?
    - CompuIves 4y ago
      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).
    - kylecarbs 4y ago
      They aren't at all (creator of code-server here)! I'm a big fan of their work.
    - deleted 4y ago
      [deleted]
terpimost 4y ago
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.