Run program in terminal instead of the debugger #2788
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Before this change, the "run" command (accessible via the "Run" code lens, the play button in the corner of the editor or the command palette) was simply invoking the debugger without any breakpoints.
The problem with this approach is that the debugger is slow relative to just running a program using the
run()method in the WASM module. With the recent circuit tracing changes, the debugger is getting more heavyweight.This PR decouples the "Run" command from the debugger. Instead, we create a VS Code terminal and direct the program output to that terminal.
As part of this change, I had to make some changes to error reporting, which happens to fix #149 .
The changes in error reporting and console output handling means that there are subtle updates to how Test Explorer and Copilot reports failed programs as well.
See below for a full UX comparison.