Are there any open source languages with a "good" native IDE? I think IDEs are probably too painful to develop unless paid to do so..
> On 14 Sep 2015, at 10:31 pm, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 14 2015, Joshua Ballanco <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It was really only later that projects were started to build “true” Clojure >> IDEs, and still I don’t think any of these surpass (or even really approach) >> the utility of the IDE plugins (the three IDEs of which I’m aware are: >> LightTable, NightCode, and clooj). >> >> One important element that allowed much of this for Clojure was the early >> development of nREPL, the network-enabled REPL. With this, all editors/IDE >> plugins stand on equal footing with access to the REPL. I noticed in the >> code to REPL.jl there’s a function `start_repl_server`, but it doesn’t seem >> to be used anywhere. >> >> If I had to pick someplace to focus effort on improving tooling for Julia in >> general, I’d look at improving/adding a network interface to the REPL. > > I very much agree. Currently the Emacs interface uses ESS for Julia, > which is not well-adapted to Julia for historical reasons. Having > something like Swank or nREPL would make things much easier > (non-blocking evaluation, integrated introspection, debugging, etc). > > Best, > > Tamas
