The Motoko playground allows users to build and deploy Motoko canisters directly in the browser,
without downloading SDK, setting up a local dev environment, and without a wallet.
We plan on adding many more features to make playground a full-featured web IDE for the Internet Computer. Community contributions are highly welcomed!
Not yet, we have an issue for this. For now, you can import files from github
Would there be a Rust version of that playground?
Rust works very differently from Motoko, so it will probably be a whole new project. But we can easily support users to upload arbitrary Wasm modules, so that you can compile Rust code locally and upload.
We add a “Save & Share” button so that you can save your work in the Motoko Playground to our backend canister. It’s also useful for people asking Motoko questions in the forum, where they can share the playground links instead of pasting code snippets.
In regards to the full-featured web IDE, has anyone had a look at VS Code in the browser? I understand that the core editor itself is monaco but I wonder if we can integrate into a well established, web based, full featured, open source IDE. It seems the [GitHub Project Selection], [Save & Share], [Deploy] and other features could be integrated into a fork of that project. Another feature could include a “simplified”, beginner friendly mode. It would look similar to the current project but can also switch to a “normal” mode, which would just be the full featured browser-based Visual Studio Code IDE.
Could be. But that means we need to host the IDE on a cloud VM instead of IC. The IC can only run WebAssembly, not docker images. Our focus is to provide features that are unique to the IC, such as deployment, canister interaction, cycles, while adding some convenience features, such as code sharing, when resource permitting. The community is free to port the code to any platforms they like.
We just add canister profiling in Motoko playground. You can now count the number of Wasm instructions executed for each update call, including the number of instructions spent in garbage collection. Thanks to our recent improvements in GC, the GC cost is significantly reduced!
You can import from github via query parameters. For example, https://m7sm4-2iaaa-aaaab-qabra-cai.raw.ic0.app/?git=dfinity/examples&branch=master&dir=motoko/counter/src
