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What's up with building an editor instead of a general IDE toolkit (like Scion or Rope)? I'm not going to stop using Emacs just to get Dart support, so folks ou
by thurn 15y ago
What's up with building an editor instead of a general IDE toolkit (like Scion or Rope)? I'm not going to stop using Emacs just to get Dart support, so folks ought to focus on the general case.
- tiles 15y agoGoogle is big on Java development, so I bet many of their programmers are Eclipse users. (Remember that the prominent way to author Android apps is through an Eclipse plugin.) I imagine the Dart editor was probably spun off early attempts at writing Eclipse integration, until someone realized they could write a much leaner editor and gain some developer props for focusing on the developer experience first.
- dizzyness 15y agoI don't understand why Google went in two different paths. Why didn't Google release an Eclipse plugin for Dart instead of an Eclipse based editor ? If you think you have an answer to that, try applying it to why did Google release a plugin for Android and not an Android editor like Dart ?
- moonboots 15y agoThis uses Eclipse Rich Client Platform, which is the definitive IDE toolkit.
- nixarn 15y agoI think it's great. I'd much rather have a lightweight editor I get with an easy install than trying to for example setup Dart for Eclipse (which I utterly hate).
- chrisbuc 15y agoThey already have emacs templates for dart.