Comment by emmanueloga_
1 year ago
Amazing project!
I get the appeal to write an IDE from scratch, especially if you are already an expert in writing GUIs with your framework of choice! I wonder if it would make more sense to spend that time writing a language server protocol daemon. That way, you could make your language available in any IDEs your users like that support LSP.
I'm usually working on older machines on which the IDE's supporting language servers would be much too slow or wouldn't work at all because of incompatibilities. I like lean tools with little dependencies. But there is a parser in moderate C++, so maybe someone else will implement such a daemon.
Could I ask why you find yourself working on older machines? Work? A fan of retro computing? Something else?
It's excellent hardware, I have many redundant copies and thus high availability, the system just works, I automatically take care of efficient implementation, and the generated executables have high probability to work on all newer Linux systems. And I'm too old to always chase for the new new version.
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Even VIM has support for LSP in extensions, I'm sure there's some lightweight LSP supporting editors out there.
I am actually glad that this person developed the IDE. Please download the IDE and try it. It is exceptionally fast. When I compare the speed with that of IDEs like Visual Studio Code etc, the difference is night and day.