Hi Luke! Yes, this is a good idea and it should not be too hard to have a first usable result. It all depends on how far you want the IDE to be. Having a Playground / Workspace, Inspector, and a code browser should not be too hard. If you wish to have (i) Pharo and Lua directly talk to each other or (ii) support Lua refactoring then this is significantly more complicated. Cheers, Alexandre
On Oct 22, 2016, at 6:47 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co> wrote:
Howdy,
I am interested in building a Lua IDE using the Glamorous Toolkit. The idea is that the Playground, the Inspector, the Spotter, and the Debugger would all be interacting with an external Lua process instead of running code in the Pharo image. The "under the hood" part of Pharo - Smalltalk code - would be hidden unless specially enabled.
Good or bad idea? Any tips on how to approach this? Has something similar been done before? (Is there example code available?)
Cheers, -Luke
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