Re: IDE

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/29/2015 01:12 PM, Oleh Krehel wrote:

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

Makes sense. Why make it C++-specific, though?

> 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.

C++ can get it from rtags or irony-mode. And "just get it from the REPL" 
is a big simplification.

> 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.

a) Why is the dynamic/static distinction important for function-args? 
Ruby and Python, for instance, have function signatures that don't look 
too different from C++/Java ones.

b) There's Scala, and the fairly popular ENSIME. They are working on 
Java support, by the way: https://github.com/ensime/ensime-server/issues/345