rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-playground
Visualise stack and heap feature suggestion
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Description
I am fairly new to rust but I was thinking about this as a potential project and thought I might as well contribute here.
Whilst learning I thought it would be a helpful and useful to visualise the memory whilst the code is executing. Most debuggers have this functionality so was thinking if I could add a debugger to the selection of tools. This might already exist or it might be too hard but was just checking and if not and its not super complex I would be happy to take this on as a learning project.
P.S. Sorry if this is not the place to discuss, I wasn't sure where to ask.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the Rust Playground's existing tools selection and determine whether a debugger can be integrated there. Define the supported execution and visualization scope for stack and heap memory, then document what a complete debugger feature would demonstrate; the issue names no files or tests to run.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- data-visualization, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100