[racket-dev] Fwd: ace?

7 minutes ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote at 08/16/2011 02:20 PM:
> > Isn't this just a JS-based editor?
> 
> CodeMirror a rather nice JS-based text editor for programming
> languages, as JS-based text editors for programming languages go,
> and includes a Scheme language mode.

I didn't mean to dismiss it as a product (and Danny did tell me about
it when I said that I'll look for an editor for the wiki but defaulted
on a plain textarea for now).  Just didn't see any interactive
examples there.


> > As for interactive examples, that would be "easy" with a sandbox.
> > The usual caveats are that it won't be able to show off
> > functionality related to FS operations, FFI, GUI, and probably a
> > few more.
> 
> Well, if you wanted to support FS operations and FFI, and you have a
> spare server with the virtualization helper CPU instructions,
> setting up a KVM VM per session is doable for moderate traffic.
> (New Linux VM per user session; COW disks; pipe each session to a
> Racket process in the respective VM; have a fresh VM loaded in the
> chamber for the next new session) I'd be willing to bang out a
> couple Racket libraries to control the virtualization, if someone
> really wanted this.

This sounds way too expensive for something public.

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