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by emmanueloga_ 550 days 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.
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Rochus 550 days ago
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.
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devin 549 days ago
Could I ask why you find yourself working on older machines? Work? A fan of retro computing? Something else?
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Rochus 549 days ago
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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LoganDark 548 days ago
Optimizing your code for slow machines is a really great thing. I wish more people would do it. If your code runs well on a slow computer then it'll run well on anything better too. A lot of code these days only runs "well" on very fast computers...
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kazinator 546 days ago
I mainly develop TXR on a refurbished Intel box with a CPU that's like from around 2009 or something. It takes at least three times longer to rebuild everything than on modern machines. (It does have 32 gigs of RAM which is good for multiple virtual machines.) In fact I have one Dell box that was a server in a startup company that shut down in 2010. And that box builds the code significantly faster.
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dinosaurdynasty 549 days ago
Even VIM has support for LSP in extensions, I'm sure there's some lightweight LSP supporting editors out there.
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pkphilip 549 days ago
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.
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