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On the topic of having one IDE that just works for multiple languages/platforms, you should check out srclib (https://srclib.org https://srclib.org), an open-so

by beliu 12y ago

On the topic of having one IDE that just works for multiple languages/platforms, you should check out srclib (https://srclib.org https://srclib.org), an open-source language analysis tool (I'm one of the creators) that abstracts away the language-specific parts of IDE support so that IDEs/editor plugins can hook into one API and automatically get support for a bunch of different languages. This way, you don't have to build MxN plugins (M editors, N languages) to support all combos of editors/languages people might want to use. The currently supported languages are Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby, so this wouldn't work yet for iOS, but Objective-C and Swift are high on our priority list. Editor plugins exist for Emacs, Sublime, and Atom. Would love to hear anyone's feedback from trying it out.

wting 12y ago
This sounds a lot like Steve Yegge's Grok: http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html It's unlikely that his version will ever be open sourced or usable outside of Google though.
- durin42 12y ago
  IIRC http://kythe.io http://kythe.io is at least related by heritage to grok.
  - beliu 12y ago
    Yep, Kythe is the open-source version of grok. It's awesome, and the srclib team is in touch with the Kythe team at Google to build on top of their analysis libs (for C++ and Java). Long term vision is to get rid of the "my editor X doesn't support language Y" problem as well as build a lot of other multi-language analysis tools on top of it. Shameless plug: if you care about developer productivity, join us!
fallat 12y ago
>On the topic of having one IDE that just works for multiple languages/platforms, I've recently given Eclipse another chance after 4 years. It has impressed me with its C, PHP and Haskell support so far. I really recommend people give it a shot. Of course I installed a half decent GTK theme to make it look nice :)
eklavya 12y ago
Please oh please make one for Rust.

by beliu 12y ago

wting 12y ago

This sounds a lot like Steve Yegge's Grok: http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html It's unlikely that his version will ever be open sourced or usable outside of Google though.

durin42 12y ago
IIRC http://kythe.io http://kythe.io is at least related by heritage to grok.
- beliu 12y ago
  Yep, Kythe is the open-source version of grok. It's awesome, and the srclib team is in touch with the Kythe team at Google to build on top of their analysis libs (for C++ and Java). Long term vision is to get rid of the "my editor X doesn't support language Y" problem as well as build a lot of other multi-language analysis tools on top of it. Shameless plug: if you care about developer productivity, join us!

fallat 12y ago

>On the topic of having one IDE that just works for multiple languages/platforms, I've recently given Eclipse another chance after 4 years. It has impressed me with its C, PHP and Haskell support so far. I really recommend people give it a shot. Of course I installed a half decent GTK theme to make it look nice :)

eklavya 12y ago

Please oh please make one for Rust.