I really like the idea of having an Apache TinkerPop hosted linter and style guide "enforcer". I have spent many wasted hours hand formatting long Gremlin queries people have asked me to look at over the years and the latest version of Gremlint makes that so much easier. I also really like the idea of extending the tool in the direction of "Gremlin converter". I hear from a lot of users that porting from (let's say) Gremlin Console to Gremlin Python (and vice-versa) is painful and hard to get right.
Cheers Kelvin On 2020/09/10 11:07:46, Stephen Mallette <s...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've had some on and off discussions with the developer of> https://gremlint.com/> whose name is Øyvind btw, about the possibility of making gremlint the> canonical Gremlin code stylizer, and by that I mean, his donating the code> (and domain name) to the Apache Software Foundation under our project. That> situation seems possible now and has been offered to the TinkerPop> Community.> I like the idea of bringing this code here because I feel our style guide> in Gremlin Recipes can only suggest convention and I'd much like to see a> code library managed by our project enforce a proper Gremlin style that can> be used not only as the neat single HTML page of gremlint.com but also as a> code library to Gremlin tool builders.> I also see the opportunity to grow this tool into an online translator to> get you from one Gremlin dialect to another which is a constant problem for> users who are working with the tons of code examples in Gremlin Groovy but> need to get a fast conversion to Python or Javascript. I know I've had that> problem myself on many occasions. An easy to use translator like this would> help users realize that Gremlin in Groovy isn't so different from Gremlin> in any other language and that once you know the subtleties of the> differences you can easily learn Gremlin from any example in any language.> I've not given a ton of thought to how gremlint would be brought in, where> it would go in our source code tree, or how it fits in to> release/deployment, but all that discussion can come later. I think that> for right now, we should simply find consensus on whether or not to go down> this path.> Are there any thoughts or concerns about accepting this code base and the> gremlint.com domain?>
Cheers, Kelvin
