Dear Rob, I have already started to work on it, trying hard to understand the nitty gritties.
IIRC I had posted about it long back stating that would be the way to go. Yes JS/Node knowledge etc is required. We can start with syntax highlighting and gradually add other features. I'm in, though I would be able to work in a limited way only on weekends. We can setup a repo on jaliib and start to work, my git and jal experience is too limited and now with age, learning speed is again limited :-) But I'm all for going ahead with making a jal extension for VSCode. Kind regards, Sunish On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:27 PM RobJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This message was posted on Jallist and Jallib. > > I have the following suggestion and am looking for somebody who wants to > pick up the challenge. > > Nowadays we have 2 JAL Editors/Integrated Development Environments, > JalEdit and JALIDE from the hard work of Sunish and Despx. > > The 'problem' is that these are Windows based and we also have Linux and > MAC users. Next to that time has passed and so there are new options we can > explore. > > It was suggested some time ago to use Notepad++. I did some tests with > syntax highlighting and starting the compiler from Notepad++ and that > partly works but it not the solution. It remains a text editor. > > So here my suggestion: > > We should create a JAL IDE using Visual Studio Code. It is free, multi > platform (Windows, Linux. Mac) and offers a lot of features like: > -) A very nice editor made for writing programs > -) Syntax highlighting > -) Snippits (not sure if we need them) > -) Intellisense (autocomplete) > -) Scripts (I assume we can start the compiler using these) > > You can make your own JAL extension to make it exactly matching the JAL > programming language. Once you have this you can make the extension public > and share it with the rest of the world via the extensions market place. > And if you want you can install all kind of extensions yourself, e.g. code > beautifiers that nicely indent your code. > > See: https://code.visualstudio.com/ > > The only issue is that you need Javascript knowledge to make the JAL > extension (if I understood that right) and there is some code generation > possible but you have to build the customization yourself. This is not my > field of expertise (yet). > > Up to know I think this is the best jAL IDE alternative covering all > platforms with a very professional user interface and user experience. > > So I was wondering if there is anybody who wants to pick up the challenge > of creating a Visual Studio Code JAL extension. > > Kind regards, > > Rob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/2af87fd0-b018-49af-9681-651b6846e3b7o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/2af87fd0-b018-49af-9681-651b6846e3b7o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CAFGw2pFbx4jRkm%3DpveHvSKOc14h3woE5ASJiwwUGg2iyyuSfMw%40mail.gmail.com.
