On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:37:33 UTC+2, Colin Fleming  wrote:
> Well, implementing symbol resolution is a pretty huge task. I'd estimate it 
> accounts for at least 60% of the time I spend working on Cursive. Cursive's 
> implementation isn't open source, but even if it were it's very tied to the 
> IntelliJ infrastructure and wouldn't be very useful. Cursive is internally 
> structured around an extension API which I'm going to open source along with 
> the current implementations so in theory those implementations could be used 
> with another core indexing engine implementing the same API, but like I say 
> it's a pretty enormous task. You'll need a good indexing engine which is much 
> harder than it sounds - the one in IntelliJ is really amazing, you definitely 
> don't want to develop that yourself if you can avoid it.
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> In general, I think it's extremely difficult to retrofit this sort of system 
> into an editor such as LightTable that wasn't designed to use it from the 
> start. IntelliJ's indexing is fundamentally integrated into the 
> infrastructure, it's not something that you could easily bolt on with a 
> plugin.
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> On 4 June 2014 02:17, Andrea Richiardi <[email protected]> wrote:
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[CUT]

Gotcha! Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look and probably ask on 
LightTable's irc channel...but I doubt that a Clojure newbie can tackle this 
alone (ok...if he can, he will spend a lot of time :)).

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