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From Swift website: "REPL & Debugger: The LLDB debugger provides a rich REPL as well as the debugging environment for the Swift Language." Yeah, OK. So we're
by kazinator 2y ago
From Swift website:
"REPL & Debugger: The LLDB debugger provides a rich REPL as well as the debugging environment for the Swift Language."
Yeah, OK. So we're gonna have to bolt the entire LLDB debugger into the editor, which will undoubtedly drag in the entire LLVM ecosystem, because that banana is held by a gorilla which is swinging from a tree, which requires the entire jungle.
This simply doesn't smell like an extension language.
- sargstuff 2y agonit pick observation point: swift extention for text editor module as wrapper for swift standard language library[0][1] aka substitue the swift language agnostic text editor in for the REPL wrapper around the swift standard library. [0] : http://www.swift.org/documentation/standard-library/ http://www.swift.org/documentation/standard-library/ [1] : http://medium.com/fink-oslo/scripting-with-swift-c8b929d1a7a3 http://medium.com/fink-oslo/scripting-with-swift-c8b929d1a7a...