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code2img might provide a cli for desktop access. Here are some quick thoughts on its requirements:

1. Where to read the code:

• from an existing file (specify line number -l 12:32 -f runtime.go, read from file runtime.go, line 12:32)
• from the system clipboard (if no file is provided)

2. Needed platform: macOS, Linux (Ubuntu distribution)

3. Where to save the outputs (need more rethink):

• Save to a file -o option and prints the URLs?
• If no output file provided, then directly print the URLs (both for code+image)?
• Write the image or code URL back to the clipboard and print the URL to the code?

It seems to be an issue about retrieving the converted images, for instance, from a mobile phone.

Let's revisit these ideas a few months later.

Ideas are from @yangwenmai :

1. How to provide access to the plain text code of an image

• Current solution: provide plain text code link access
• Possible alternatives:
  • store it to play.golang.org
  • concatenate a QR code that contains the link to the code URL (seems a good idea, but where to put the QR code?)

2. URLs are too long (especially with UUID):

• seems to be a valid request, but do people really care about having a shorter URL for sharing? I would argue that people won't try to remember such a link (even in a short form) because they only paste it somewhere and post it to the public.
• shorter URL needs a string allocator without collision to the existing ones, which needs more work (existing solutions other than UUID?)

Let's wait until we learned more experience with the current service status, probably revisit it next month.