Remove link to scalafiddle or help making it work again

[oswaldo]

Hello,

Scalafiddle was a nice tool I personally used when introducing people to Scala in general (especially for newcomers, it is better to just open the browser and show things instead of talking about IDEs and compilers).

But it has been down since October with no activity in the ticket mentioning that (https://github.com/scalafiddle/scalafiddle-io/issues/55) or any answer to the sporadic questions about it being down in gitter.

IMHO it looks bad that the main page of Scala.js says "A safer way to build robust front-end web applications!" and after clicking "Try Scala.js in the browser" the user is welcomed by a Cloudflare Bad gateway message.

So, if there isn't a way to get Scalafiddle up and running any time soon, consider omitting the link for now (or maybe replace with a link to an existing tutorial or a new one focused on users new to the platform).

[gzm0]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

[gzm0]

I'm not sure there is anything we can do short of removing the link (at least for now). @sjrd do you have any operational details about scalafiddle?

[sjrd]

No, I need to ask that of @ochrons. Also I need to contact him about what the Scala Center can do to take it over financially and/or operationally. We decided a few weeks ago that we could definitely do something about it, but we're so swamped with the imminent release of Scala 3 these days ...

[ochrons]

Yeah, let's figure out how to move it under Scala Center as I don't have the time to maintain it anymore.

[sjrd]

The front page points to Scribble these days.