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There is no mention of the most recent editor that is being developed - Second Climacs, by Robert Strandh. https://github.com/robert-strandh/Second-Climacs http
by phoe-krk 8y ago
There is no mention of the most recent editor that is being developed - Second Climacs, by Robert Strandh. https://github.com/robert-strandh/Second-Climacs https://github.com/robert-strandh/Second-Climacs
It has multiple novel ideas, such as generating a syntax tree of typed Lisp code as it is being typed in on the keyboard, which allows it to automatically check and validate symbol spelling and indent code based not on regexes, but on the actual Lisp code that is being edited.
- maxilulu 8y agoIs nothing new, have been done many times in form of language server protocols.
- cellularmitosis 8y agoWould love to see other examples of this!
- wyuenho 8y agoLiterally how every IDE works since Eclipse, and may be even earlier
- bunderbunder 8y agoIn .NET it's even advanced to the point that the official C# and Visual Basic (and maybe others) compilers expose this functionality themselves, so that the IDE doesn't have to implement its own parser that may or may not understand things the same way. Contrast with, e.g., working with Scala in IntelliJ, where you just have to kind of get used to the fact that the IDE will occasionally insist six ways from Sunday that your working code couldn't possibly compile.