Has anyone else tried this? On GitHub, switch to the codespace branch, type the , key and wait for the magic to happen. This is ridiculously convenient. @dhollman, that was a good idea and @river, thanks a million for implementing this.
@river would it make sense to add this to the main branch? Would it be easy enough to add this to our other projects?
Another question, can we automatically install plugins like the C/C++ extension pack?
Pro tip – pay attention to your browser pop-up settings – bc at first I’m like, wut is @dsankel talking about – then I notice Firefox asking for popup permissions. It should be on the main branch, but I’m personally not a fan of the interface – give me godbolt if we’re doing some web thing. I don’t need a wickedly complex visual studio code interface to compile and run a simple example.
Yes! There is currently a pending PR to merge this to main: Codespace support for exemplar by wusatosi · Pull Request #63 · beman-project/exemplar · GitHub
Although there’s no problem to launch from codespace branch, you can checkout main and work on whatever you want to work on.
I am still waiting for more feedback, @neatudarius suggested adding more compilers support which I will explore after we figure out how GitHub is caching the environment. Please leave more suggestions if you have any.
I can propagate this to more projects after initial PR is merged.
I am still waiting @dhollman to provide any suggestions to that PR, I sent her an email earlier this week asking for suggestions but she haven’t gone back to me. If anyone has a direct link to her, let her know!
Nice to hear you are enjoying this! How was the setup experience? How long did GitHub spend to spin up the instance?
Yes! VS code extensions can be installed as apart of devcontainer, let me know which extensions you think will be great to add to the environment!