Official playgrounds

[darth-kitty]

A surprising number of programming languages include an official "playground" on their website, though the quality and number of features varies. Two of them (play.golang.org and play.rust-lang.org) are already listed under the "Snippets" heading, but I was able to find 10 more. Would it be worthwhile to lump these together under their own header?

• try.kotlinlang.org
• play.nim-lang.org (isn't advertised, but I found a link here)
• play.crystal-lang.org
• www.typescriptlang.org/play/
• ruby.github.io/TryRuby/ (less obviously official, but it's linked to from the official website)
• www.lua.org/demo.html (very bare-bones)
• run.dlang.io
• scastie.scala-lang.org
• elm-lang.org/try (not HTTPS)
• try.purescript.org (not HTTPS)

(I also noticed that www.python.org/shell/ and www.haskell.org include a CLI, but those probably don't count.)

[styfle]

Hi @darthkitty-bt

Thanks for creating this issue and taking the time to find all of those.

The purpose of the awesome list is not to enumerate all possible Online IDEs, but to highlight the awesome ones.

For the languages that are not represented, I think we should add those.

But some of these official playgrounds, such as TS, are not as full featured as their unofficial counterparts, such as the Better TS Playground. So I don't see a reason to list the official playground too.

Would it be worthwhile to lump these together under their own header?

I'm thinking that a person coming to view this list probably doesn't care about the "officialness" of the IDE, so it's not necessary to create a different header.

Would you like to create a PR for a few of the missing languages?

[viveksh1]

Honestly, some official playgrounds are better than the unofficial playgrounds listed. There's even Kotlin Web Demo, which is on the list, and is an official playground.

[viveksh1]

@styfle There is also https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/try-dotnet and https://try.haxe.org/