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So in what meaningful sense does this support Pascal? It seems like the IDE's (not necessarily the box) support for Pascal is on only a slightly higher level t
by JasonFruit 13y ago
So in what meaningful sense does this support Pascal? It seems like the IDE's (not necessarily the box) support for Pascal is on only a slightly higher level than Notepad. There's very basic syntax highlighting, and non-syntax-aware autocompletion based on the current file. You even have to manually handle indentation, and to drop back a level, you have to delete the right number of spaces, one at a time.
You can't be an IDE until you're at least a usable editor.
- joelmoss 13y agoThere are a lot of programming languages to support, so please bear with us. But we're making good progress. What other languages do you use?
- JasonFruit 13y agoA number of them, but Pascal is a rare enough inclusion to have made me try it out — only to find that it shouldn't have been included in the list of supported languages, because it's not. Better to list fewer features but implement them well, in my opinion.
- joelmoss 13y agoI understand where you are coming from, but its difficult to decide when such a feature becomes a feature. We have syntax highlighting for Pascal, so you could argue that we support it, but of course, there is a lot more that we could do to make Pascal devs lives easier and more fruitful.
- leeoniya 13y agoquite a strange take, IMO. i guess you could just as easily claim "Support for over 60 languages out of the box" by integrating Codemirror [1], though i would consider this to be quite disingenuous. without singing up, it's hard to say how much is there, but autocomplete, some form of function & class list and a syntax checker / linter would be a minimum to claim any form of language support in the context of an IDE. my 0.02 [1] http://codemirror.net/mode/index.html http://codemirror.net/mode/index.html