[acley]

its free

[f3408fh]

And entirely AI generated

[Bnjoroge]

I’ll take that over something AI generated that’s not free

[acley]

coauthored by compiler

[gkbrk]

All the codecrafters content is available on Github too, for free.

[DistractionRect]

This I didn't know, thank you for that! "Build a selfhosted codecrafters" might be a fun meta "build an X"

[acley]

But can you run it on their platform? NO, you need to run it on your own machine which takes a bit of work. And we have over 80 courses waaay over whatever codecrafters has

[flexagoon]

> you need to run it on your own machine

Isn't that the best part of codecrafters? Being able to just use your own text editor instead of a janky web based one which loses everything you typed on page refresh?

[azangru]

I'd rather have something I can tinker with on my own machine, thank you very much

[acley]

You were right, and this comment stuck with me so I have decided to go ahead and implement it.

Every course now has a "work in your own editor" mode: you can download a zip with the starter code for every lesson plus a run_tests.sh that runs the full test suite locally. After that, you can push it to a public GitHub repo, we will judge it based on our grading system and internal tests

[acley]

I respect your opinion too.

[tekno45]

if you're learning code challenges you should probably learn how to run code locally.

[batisteo]

Are we the product?

[acley]

How can you be the PRODUCT when we have only 500 users? WE are NO GOOGLE my friend. BTW you can use guest mode if feel like you dont want to singup