features VS gitpod

* "Features" (https://containers.dev/implementors/features/ ) which allow you to quickly add functionality to your dev containers. For example, when I want to add the terraform CLI, I add the corresponding feature to the devcontainer.json.

The way I see it - it's a really nice way to make modules out of your Docker files (e.g. we need to install a tool and we need to run apt-get + some config, etc). And a simpler, JSON syntax to apply those modules on top of a base image.

I love the experience so far, we've done a few features (modules) - e.g. this one to install `nvtop` to see GPU utilization https://github.com/iterative/features/blob/main/src/nvtop/in...

The whole CUDA + nvtop + (some other tools) for an example project to be run on a remote machine via VS Code becomes like this:

https://github.com/shcheklein/hackathon/blob/main/.devcontai...

And that's enough to run ML training on GH Codespaces with GPU support. Super cool experience.

Gitpod: It provides a Chrome extension that opens a VS Code-based IDE right in your browser. It is best for running the project in your browser without setting up and running locally.

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This is very interesting but if I read correctly OP’s question they probably mean something like Gitpod/GitHub Codespaces where the IDE is running “somewhere else” and is accessible via browser.

Before we begin the siege of the RPC we need to ensure our system is configured for building Soroban smart contracts. You have two clear options. The first is to use a virtual environment like Gitpod or Codespaces which can have everything pre-installed and configured for you. In fact here's a good hello-world Gitpod VM we've built for you.

GitPod can integrate with a range of Git repo hosts and supports a number of popular IDEs, not just VS Code. The Starter account gives you 50 hrs free per month.