Re: IDE

[Oleh Krehel]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> - Oleh Krehel's function-args even mentions C/C++ in its summary.
>
> Perhaps, if there were more broadly applicable examples, it would lead
> to broader adoption. Maybe we should wonder why prefer making tools
> for CEDET that only target C and C++.

I targeted C++ because that's a language that I use a lot and I needed
support for.

Dynamic languages like JavaScript/Ruby/Python/Elisp/CL/Clojure/Scheme
don't need to rely on Semantic for tags info, they can just get it from
the REPL. It's still a choice, and both things can work and cooperate.

However, for static languages like C++ Semantic is the only choice for
getting the tag metadata. Which other popular language is in the static
camp? Only Java, the rest I label as hipster, no offense.  I guess some
good progress could be made by extending Semantic for Java, however it's
hard to find Emacs people who are enthusiastic about that language. And
the amount of work to be done would have to be enormous to trump the
popular Java IDE.

    Oleh