René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add a dev container to the repository","articleBody":"Originally discussed at https://discuss.python.org/t/add-support-for-devcontainers-to-facilitate-github-codespaces-usage/21330 , the idea is to get to the point where we can have [GitHub Codespaces prebuilds](https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/prebuilding-your-codespaces/about-github-codespaces-prebuilds). This would get people a running container in under a minute with CPython and the docs already fully built. The idea is it saves everyone time by having a preconfigured setup, making things like getting started as sprints extremely easy. It can also help in situations like with WASI where the toolchain can come pre-installed to make getting started much easier.\r\n\r\nFYI everyone on GitHub gets 120 CPU-hours of free Codespaces, so that means a 2-core CPU instance is worth 60 hours of use. And with prebuilds, at least the initial building of `python` and the docs comes for \"free\" for users.\r\n\r\nAdding this setup has already been approved by the SC.\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-102975\n* gh-103283\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/brettcannon","@type":"Person","name":"brettcannon"},"datePublished":"2023-03-23T20:21:10.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/102973/cpython/issues/102973"}