dlangbot for Telegram - D compiler in your pocket

[Anton Fediushin]

On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 12:32:32 UTC, Dechcaudron wrote:
> On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 05:50:56 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote:
>> Regarding vulnerabilities, if there are any I and 
>> authors/maintainers of dlang-tour will be interested in fixing 
>> them ASAP. After all, dlangbot uses tour's code under the hood.
>
> Then I assume all trivial vulnerabilities are taken care of. I 
> just thought you had implemented this from scratch to run on a 
> computer of yours.

I'd like to believe it though I know there must be a bug 
somewhere. There always is.

Dlangbot runs on AWS. I use docker-compose to isolate all of the 
related services (bot, database and the one which executes the 
code).

>
>>
>> Executable downloading would require me to rewrite the 
>> back-end. I am not sure if it'll worth it because it's not 
>> clear how safe that would be for a user and how usable that 
>> feature will be. I mean, if user already has x86-64 Linux 
>> machine (that's what dlangbot uses) then will it be any 
>> simpler and faster to message the bot with code, download an 
>> executable and run it than compiling it using installed 
>> compiler?
>
> Here you are assuming the user has a compiler installed on his 
> machine. It may not be the case in some environments or for 
> some people that are just toying around with the language.

I think my assumption is right, because newbies are more likely 
to start with D either reading books or dlang-tour which provides 
means to compile and execute examples and edit them as one wants.

Even dub, official package manager and build tool for D promotes 
using `dub run package` instead of building the project and 
running an executable manually. This approach does make sense 
because it prevents some silly mistakes people make.

I'll open an issue about your idea, but I can't see it being very 
useful so it's very unlikely to be implemented at all. Who knows 
though, it might be very easy to do if I decide to change the 
architecture of the whole project.