On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Boris Schäling
By the way, do you or anyone else know how reliable Wandbox is? Is the website/online compiler up and running most of the time?
It seems to be reliable, but I'm not sure about it. I guess wandbox is based in Asia somewhere. Nonethless, they provide the dialy snapshots of the compilers which is awesome!
When you look at the examples of these other programming languages, do you modify them and are happy you can run them in the browser? (Serious question; I wonder as I never did this and never missed such an option.)
Yea, I do experiment in the browser a bit. I just can't be asked going through the installation process as it's different for each compiler. Therefore, I'm checking it online. If I like i will give it ago and spend more efford installing and playing with it online. That's the way I experimented with Go and Rust. But it just me, no idea whether other developers have similar approach.
Given that you referred to other programming languages: I do wonder whether developers look at C++ as a programming language which is too difficult to get started with ("you can try out Rust/Nim/Go/D in the browser but not C++ - too much effort to try it out"). If this is the case, I would definitely want to see more C++ examples being interactive.
Well, I see it a bit like that, but again, it's just my view from my experience. A lot of developers I talk to (mostly Java,Python, C# or JS), still think that C++ is basically C with classes. Moreover, it compiles slowly, gives really long error messages and plenty of segfaults. It's hard to convenience them to modern C++ and that OO might be done the same way, that we can use dependency injection too, that we can compile quickly etc... Having an online way to show that, IMHO, may surprise them a bit and maybe encourage to try modern C++ a bit more.