Executable code snippets in Bing

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Post by bufbupa » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 8:24 PM UTC

Executable code snippets in Bing
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#2

Post by hartator » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:04 PM UTC

I think it's weird to see Bing introducing new features first.

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#3

Post by palakchokshi » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:09 PM UTC

I can see this being abused for phone screen technical interviews :) but I do search for code snippets when I'm learning something new so this is great.

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Post by riyadparvez » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:10 PM UTC

Given that so many vertical features can be integrated in a search engine, this seems very odd choice.

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Post by ideal322 » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:15 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #2

I think it's weird to see Bing introducing new features first.

It's one of the first times in a long time that Bing has partnered with another company. HackerRank for the win!

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Post by sremani » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

Not only you get the result code, but you can edit the code and run it. Nice!!!

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#7

Post by derwiki » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

Not to be flippant, but.. I assumed most coders use Google / DuckDuckGo. I seem to remember reading that even coming from Microsoft offices, engineers prefer Google to Bing. Does that make this simply a PR move?

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Post by tsurantino » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

derwiki wrote: post #7

Not to be flippant, but.. I assumed most coders use Google / DuckDuckGo. I seem to remember reading that even coming from Microsoft offices, engineers prefer Google to Bing. Does that make this simply a PR move?

You're right - Bing shouldn't bother improving it's product for potential new users because people prefer to use other products which don't have these features...

Re: Executable code snippets in Bing

#9

Post by hockeybias » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:21 PM UTC

tsurantino wrote: post #8

derwiki wrote: post #7

Not to be flippant, but.. I assumed most coders use Google / DuckDuckGo. I seem to remember reading that even coming from Microsoft offices, engineers prefer Google to Bing. Does that make this simply a PR move?

You're right - Bing shouldn't bother improving it's product for potential new users because people prefer to use other products which don't have these features...

And certainly nobody would ever change search engines.

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#10

Post by georgewfraser » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 9:26 PM UTC

This uses Monaco, the code editor behind Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com) and Typescript Playground (https://www.typescriptlang.org/play). I've spent time with ACE, CodeMirror, and Visual Studio Code, and Monaco puts everything else to shame. Hopefully soon they will provide better documentation of how to use Monaco in your own projects, there's an issue for it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/446