Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 23 Oct 2015, at 8:19 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> How hard would it be to make a good text editor in LiveCode? > > It might not be hard but probably take considerably more time than > the time it takes to read this thread and has taken for @peter-b > and contributors to put together the livecode language package for > atom. It took much less time for me to develop the linter for example > than I spend on debugging simple little syntax errors in livecode > server scripts for example. The ROI was well worth it and with Atom > covering the 3 desktop platforms it seemed a no brainer. I’m not > doing much with LCB yet but I suspect getting live script errors in > that will be a bit of a boon too. Whether folks use if as an > alternative editor for stack scripts was not really my goal when > making contributions but I’ve already found it useful for script only > stacks.
My question wasn't about ROI, but where I was going with that is less interesting than your reply, which raises a question of its own:
Given that PHP, Python, Lua, Ruby, and most other scripting languages deliver a great engine with no IDE at all, why don't we leverage the community's and the team's interest in using external editors and just either bundle one with LC and/or let people use their own?
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
