Hi Peter, It's definitely a valid suggestion! The reason why I didn't go down the route of plugging into SharpDevelop \ MonoDevelop is because I wanted to provide something quick, lightweight and easy to start using without having to install too many additional items. I want the application to be focused on the DLR and dynamic languages, not sure hacked on the side. If I want to write a quick Ruby script, I don't want to wait 10 minutes for the IDE to load and create a new solution etc - I just want a way to write the code, maybe debug, maybe unit test and execute. Hopefully, IronEditor will provide that support.
I'm not 100% confident you could easily fit a dynamic language into an IDE developed with statically typed languages in mind without either changing a lot of the core IDE functionality, or not taking full advantage of the language itself. It will be interesting to see how the team copes with VS integration. Maybe I am going down the wrong route, if there is a strong feeling for having this integrated instead of a standalone application then I will take a much closer look. Thanks for the comment. Ben On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Peter Bacon Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't mean to be a party-pooper - this project looks cool and could provide > a really good alternative to VS for a range of developers. > > But how about writing a plug-in for SharpDevelop instead? This would give > you a head start on a lot of the base-line functionality and let you > concentrate on the Iron... stuff. > > Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Hall > Sent: Sunday,20 July 20, 2008 11:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Ironruby-core] Announcing IronEditor - An Editor for IronRuby, > IronPython and other DLR languages > > Hi everyone, > > Last night I uploaded an initial release of an application I've been > working on - IronEditor. This is a simple application designed to make > it easier to start coding against the DLR based languages, out of the > box it supports IronPython and IronRuby. > > The reason why I decided to build this is because Visual Studio > Integration for the languages is a long way off and playing around > creating code to for the languages is painful via the provided console > applications. As such, the aim of the application is to provide a very > lightweight way to edit and execute code, great while learning the > languages and giving demos. > > Blog Post: > http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/07/announcing-ironeditor-editor-for.html > > Download: http://www.codeplex.com/IronEditor > Build: 1.0.0.46 > > This is a release early with not too many advanced features but it can > execute code! :) Over the next few weeks and months, I will be adding > more features and implementing additional parts of the Hosting API. I > will also try to blog about the actual implementation of IronEditor. > > Any feedback or feature suggestions you have on the application would be > great! > > Thanks > > Ben > Blog.BenHall.me.uk > Microsoft MVP (C#) > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
