Bing introduces live code editor to make programming easier

Microsoft teamed up with HackerRank to create the new feature

Participants at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress in Hamburg, Germany (Patrick Lux/Getty Images)

Bing, Microsoft's unfairly-derided search engine, has a new feature which will make life much easier for programmers.

Typically, when they forget an important piece of code, programmers will just Google their problem, finding the solution in a pile of links and re-writing or copy/pasting it into their code editor.

Bing has made things much easier by teaming up with HackerRank to build a live code editor right into the results page.

When searching for any code problem relating to a major programming language, the solution will appear in the code editor window. You can then edit and run it within the page, making the whole problem-solving process a bit quicker and easier.

It's not a revolutionary new technology, but like all great internet tools, it gets rid of an annoyance you didn't even know existed.

It's theoretically up and running from today, but some users outside the US are claiming it isn't working yet. It should be rolled out worldwide within the next few days.

Maybe if Bing introduces a few more tools like this one, people will finally stop making fun of it.