Hi Stefan, Thanks for your insight. On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Stefan Marr <smallt...@stefan-marr.de> wrote: > Hi Ben: > >> On 8 Feb 2017, at 08:01, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >> >> Just a very brief thought, to wonder being a Language Server Protocol client >> might be a path to polygot programming in Pharo. >> Or if providing a LSP server might be a bridge-head >> for Pharo to be integrated into larger projects. >> >> * http://langserver.org/ >> * >> https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/master/protocol.md > > Just to report on my experience with the language server protocol. > Most IDEs supporting it assume that you got a file syntax to start from. > So, that would seem like the biggest hurdle, if you aren’t happy with change > sets.
Perhaps a WebDAV server interface, since in the spec I think I saw the file references were urls. I vaguely thought I'd seen someone had done a WebDAV server, but I can't find the reference. > > Beside that, providing a basic language server for Pharo should be pretty > simple. > You got already all the functionality in the image, and merely need to expose > it via the language server protocol to be consumed by for instance VS Code. > So, that includes simple parser errors, lookup of senders, documentation or > even code critique results. > > To get an impression of how that could look for a Smalltalk-like language, > check the screenshots here: > http://stefan-marr.de/2016/08/can-we-get-the-ide-for-free-too/ > > and here: > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MetaConcProject.SOMns > > That’s how it looks for Newspeak/SOMns. cool. cheers -ben
