On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:33:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'd always thought Javascript was an ideal extension language for a text editor.
Well, I don't think *ideal*, but indeed, it wouldn't be bad. And my little thing isn't quite JS, I borrow some ideas from D too. So it has string slicing for example, and the ~= operator instead of += for concatenation.
I think it'd be ok for a text editor. And heck, I might be writing one kinda soonish (I'm kinda reminded of the scene from Star Wars where Luke builds his own lightsaber, a rite of passage for a Jedi... every master programmer writes her or his own text editor at some point too...)
I'm in no rush though, with all the other stuff going on, "soonish" probably means "in the next three years".
