hippo VS Visual Studio Code

WebAssembly (Wasm) is something that the Cloud Native Advocacy team has been exploring. It has been around for a few years and has mostly been used within browser-based applications. There are many blog posts on what makes WebAssembly an ideal target for running applications (e.g., smaller footprint with .wasm files compared to containers, code isolation, and sandboxing). My colleague Steven Murawski wrote a blog series on getting started with hosting Wasm apps on an emerging PaaS platform called Hippo which is developed by folks at Fermyon. In Part 1 of the series, he introduces topics and define some of the acronyms like "Wagi" and "WASI". He also introduced a runtime called Wasmtime which implements the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) standard. This article will walk you through how Steven and I went about getting a .NET console app running as a Wasm app on the Wasmtime runtime in a Dev Container. The .NET console app produced in this article has also been contributed as a csharp template in the yo-wasm repo which is also maintained by Fermyon; so you can quickly test it out for yourself later.

A code editor (e.g. Visual Studio code)

In their report they show the 10 projects with the biggest number of contributors. The first one is microsoft/vscode with 19.8K contributors in 2022 and the 10th place is tensorflow/tensorflow with 4.4K contributors. That's really nice, but my guess is that most repositories have very few contributors.

VS Code - best all around code editor

Syntax Highlighting in text editors is great! I do almost all of my development using the Sublime Text text editor, and the Sublime-Twee2 plugin, which makes everything I do color-coded. (The built-in twine editor also has this for Harlowe I think. Sugarcube hasn't implemented it yet.) Visual Studio Code is also a popular editor, and I think it also has a twine plugin.

Furthermore, depending on which integrated development environment (IDE) you use, your editor detects the strict_types and warns you inside the editor before running your code. For example, I use the Intelephense extension inside Visual Studio Code, which warns me about wrong parameters before I run the code, like so:

VSCode can be found here: https://code.visualstudio.com

Have a look here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/132776

The VSCode Project Manager then asked to upvote any features users want to see in the app, even referencing several issues (mostly 5+ years old!) with thousands of upvotes. Check them out here!