> > I'm willing to help on this task, I think having a good completion library > can help a lot smoothing the learning curve of a new language. I learned > python in a few days with aptana, and I remember a few years ago how it was > easy to write C++ with visual studio. Having an IDE integration is almost > as important as having good tutorials.
That's great. I agree that it would be nice for newbies and I think also for others as most people are already quite spoiled by the capabilities of modern IDE's these days. I'm also a newbe in Rust and I imagine you want to write in rust itself. I > can help on the integration with sublime. I was hoping to write in rust because I don't want to implement/maintain a parser and typechecker from scratch. I was very pleased to see that it's possible to access everything in `librustc` and `libsyntax` with a simple `extern`, not sure if this will be removed later. rustfind (https://github.com/dobkeratops/rustfind) does this and more, > for crates that compile. I wasn't aware of that, looks very nice indeed. I will take a look and see if I can contribute somehow when I have some time. Not very, for the general case. If you want autocompletion as you > type, you currently need to have a fully-compilable crate. Otherwise, > parsing or typechecking or something else will fail and you won't be > able to get any results. rustc is currently very all-or-nothing. It's a bummer. Are there any plans to implement some error recovery to rustc? But, you can get useful information for completion out of an > already-compiling crate, though I'm not sure how much better it would > be than what etags already does. It has been some time since I last tried tags for autocompletion but it wasn't very accurate as far as I remember. As far as I know you also need some editor plugin for this, something like [OmniCppComplete]( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1520) which is basically a cpp parser implemented in vimscript. Very, since it would require reworking most of the compiler ;) :)
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