Even boiling the ocean!

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Colin Fleming <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sure, anything is of course possible with enough work :-)
>
>
> On 4 June 2014 02:48, Andrea Richiardi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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>> >
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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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