Hi Stefan, Thanks for your insight. On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Stefan Marr <smalltalk@stefan-marr.de> wrote:
Hi Ben:
On 8 Feb 2017, at 08:01, Ben Coman <btc@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.m...
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 arenât 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
Thatâs how it looks for Newspeak/SOMns.
cool. cheers -ben