Hi Francisco! On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 23:51, Francisco M Neto <fmn...@fmneto.com> wrote: > > Elementary Code earlier called Scratch, is an IDE > designed with simplicity in mind. It offers essential functionalities > such as git support, multi-panel and miniview support and extensions > for integration with the Terminal and web visualization. > > It is written from scratch, with support for plugins. Its purpose is > to be lightweight and extensible, with plenty of customization > options. It support syntax highlighting for a wide range of > programming languages. > > It is a minimalist, extensible GTK-based IDE that is not dependent > on GNOME. It follows the Elementary Human Interface Guidelines.
Cool :-) By the way, how is Elementary Code, an IDE? Upstream calls it a "[code-specific] text-editor" here ( https://medium.com/elementaryos/scratch-is-now-code-2838e03134c7 ), and it sounds like Code is intended to be like Atom, "a hackable text editor" ( https://atom.io ), rather than something like GNOME Builder or XCode ( https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7oi8nf/scratch_text_editor_is_now_elementary_code/dsafxmb/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 ). If you'd like to use "IDE" in the long description to make it discoverable with keyword or regex searches, maybe something could be written about how Code is more than a text editor, but that it's for people who don't want a full-featured IDE? Does it support templates, macros, code folding, any kind of linting or language server-based IDE features (LSP), tab completion of variable, function, or class names, etc? More simply, does it have an LSP plugin like https://github.com/atom-community/atom-languageclient or is one planned? Ideally it'd be nice if upstream could make a statement about their vision and objectives for Code on its homepage https://github.com/elementary/code Because you use the keyword "minimalist", I wonder if the authors of this software (and perhaps yourself) believe that full-featured IDEs are not the best way to work ;-) Not being an IDE can be a desirable feature, after all! Regards, Nicholas